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The chronicle., 1962-12-13
Cold wave
is predicted
to be dying
Crops damaged.
several deaths
due to weather

An Arctic-like cold wave
which swept the South
causing death and heavy
crop damage, showed signs
of releasing its grip on
Dixie today.
Temperature dropped to eight
degrees at Jackson, mathcing N
record set in 1929. Mississippi re-
ported five deaths attributed to
weather.
Records lows for December
were set for most of Alabama
during the night. Temperatures
ranged from one degree at Hunts
vile to 10 at Mobile. A general
warming trend was predicted In
the state for Friday.
The multi-million dollar Flor
ida citrus crop was dealt n
heavy blow when the mercury
plunged to the 20s early today.
The temperature skidded to Ii
degrees at Tallahassee, the cold
est there in NOR ethan % years.
Weather bureau at Lakeland,
in the heart of the citrus belt.
said damage to the citrus crop
would be serious. More cold
weather was forecast for tonight
but a warming trend is predicted
for Friday.
Temperatures hovered near
zero in Georgia, where the cold
wave was blamed for IL deaths.
Coolest recorded temperature
in Tennessee this morning was
IL degrees below zero at Cross
vile on the Cumberland Plateau.
Thirteen persons were left home.
less by fire last night at Kings
port.
Tupelo recorded the official low
early today in Mississippi with a
one degree reading, while Column
bus posted a 8, Meridian a five,
Jackson and McComb eight and
Biloxi Il.
Annie Clay, 88, burned to death
today when fire destroyed her
home at Lyman near Gulfport.
Rufus Burns, AZ, burned to
death last night when fire de-
stroyed his frame home at Me.
ridian. A woman died Of exposure
early Tuesday at Columbus.
Susie Jennings, As, died Tues.
day of exposure at her home in
Artesis community near Column
bus.
Two persons died In a fire
early Wednesday In rural com.
munity of Alligator in Bolivar
County.
Victims were identified as Mil
lie Cotton and Frank Sextcn, both
in their sos. They lived in a
frame house on Twiford planta-
ton which was destroyed by n
fire.
The chronicle., 1962-12-13
Hiroshima shows whv
Civil Defense is needed
NOTE: Another IN a series

NOTE: Another IN a series
On Civil Defense)
By MARCUS B. DALTON
Pascagoula CD Director
What could happen without
Civil Defense?
Without Civil Defense your
city would be helpless. Ask the
Japanese. Hiroshima and Ma
gasaN had almost no civil de
tense as we know it. When
atomic bombs were dropped,
their citizens were almost COM
pletely unprepared.
Results: The people panicked
badly. Many thousands were
needIessly hurt or killed, fam
lilies were broken up. property
was lost.
Thousands were left homeless
with no one TO dare for them.
The wounded and helpless, who
might otherwise have lived,
died because proper civil de-
fense was not organized to save
them.
But there was something of
even greater Importance to a
nation that was fighting for its
life.
The fact that there was no
civil defense meant that the
factories left standing after the
atomic blast could not operate.
Without civil defense a nation
Is helpless.
With it, cities can get up off
the floor and fight back after
an attack. Casualties can be cut
at least in half.
What are the biggest Civil
Defense problems?
Public education, training,
and organization.
We need quick civil defense
training for some 5000, 600
The chronicle., 1962-12-13
Weather

Continued fair and very cold
today and tonight. Hard freeze
tonight with low of 20 degrees.
High today 36. Increasing cloud
mess and a little warmer Fri
day. Northeasterly winds 10 to
20 miles per hour today be-
coming s to 16 miles per hour
variable Friday.
Middle Gulf - NOrtheasterly
winds 20 to IS knots today di-
minishing to Is to Is knots to-
night and becoming variable s
to is knots over north portion
Friday. Partly cloudy weather.
Coastal - North to northeast
winds 10 to 20 knots today be-
coming variable s to Is knots
tonight and Friday. Generally
fair weather.
Outlook for Saturday - Con-
siderable cloud inc S S and
warmer over south Mississippi
with some rain likely.
The chronicle., 1962-12-13
Named to post
in CofC execs
is Bill D. Bailey

William D. Bailey, manager of
the Pascagoula Chamber of Com
merce, has been appointed to the
membership services committee
announced today by Albert C.
Boyd of Lansing, Mich, presi-
dent of the national association.
He has distinguished himself
in the field of chamber admins
tration. and we are pleased to
call upon his knowledge and ex-
perience in furthering the work
of our organization" commented
Boyd.
1t is the purpose of this COM
mittee to develop effective and
continuing methods of bringing
ACCE (American Chamber of
Commerce Executives) and its
members closer together, there
by broadening understanding of
ACCE and its objectives, increas-
ing participation in ACCE pro-
grams and fostering improved
services by ACCE to its men,
berS.
The American Chamber OF
Commerce Executives is the Ma
tional Management Association Of
some 2,4OO Chamber executives.
It is the national spokesman
for Chamber of Commerce man.
agemeqlt and is dedicated to the
principle of the development and
enforcement of ethical standards
of practice and the maintenance
of high educational standards.
The chronicle., 1962-12-13

In Jackson, however, Jones said
he was merely conducting the
business" in which he is engaged
and willingly sold three tapes Of
the speech to Cooper.
Cooper came to my office
not the station-and asked if
had a tape of Wallace's address.
/ told him / did. / told him
woul be glad to sell him a tape
for $3-the commercial price. He
said he would like three. 1t was
strictly a business deal. Cooper
was very nice"
He added that the speech was
made before public audience
and anybody could have heart it. .
In the speech Wallace praised
Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett
for his action in defying the fed.
eral government in forcing Negro
James Meredith into Ole Miss.
He indicated he would do like.
wise in Alabama.
In Washington an FBI spokes.
man said eve are conducting an
investigation into this matter al
the request Of the attorney gen.
eral. He asked that we secure
The chronicle., 1962-12-13

Americans, and intensive edu-
cation in Self-pr0tection for
135, 100000 more. The most
staggering civil defense prob
lem is the size of the training
and organization jobs to be
done.
Try to picture the number of
trained workers that would be
needed to handle an attack
situation.
AS an example, a single first
aid station should consist OF al
most 200 workers. They chould
handle about 600 wounded pe0-
pie in "a hours.
Nearly 100 such firSt-aid sta
tons would be needed to care
for those injured by one Hiro-
shima-Size atomic bomb. So,
more than 10000 firSt-aid work.
ers would be needed for each
atomic bomb, and this doesn't
include hospital staffs.
Before first-aiders could
reach the wounded, an engin-
eering service as large or even
larger would be needed to
clear the rubble.
Many thousands would have
to help save the city.
A highly trained rescue serv-
ice would be needed to get
people out of wrecked or burn
ing buildings.
A large and efficient supply
service would be needed to
bring in food, clothing, and
medicine.
There would be the other jobs
of putting out fires, restoring
utilities, caring for the home
less, gathering families to-
gether again, feeding the peo-
pie, and getting the factories
and community life rolling once
more.
The chronicle., 1962-12-13

NASHVILLE, CUPID - Team
sters president James Hoffa said
today he will testify Friday in
his own behalf in the 81 million
conspiracy case against him.
The chronicle., 1962-12-13
Reshu0zing is passed
FindllY z houses
dgree on proposal.
still up to voters
BY CLIFF SESSIONS

JACKSON (UPD - SEN
ators settled a month-long
legislative fight over reap
portionment today by a.
dopting a seat : shuffling
plan which won House ap-
proval Wednesday.
1t has been a month to the day
since lawmakers went into special
session to avoid court-ordered re-
spportionment by adopting a plan
Of their own.
Scores of plans have been re-
jected since then and it appeared
earlier this week that an agree
ment might be impossible.
But Wednesday afternoon rep
resentatives voted 80 to "a in
favor of a plan recommended by
a joint House-Senate conference
ccnnittee-a plan which had al-
ready won Senate approval in Z
different resolution.
Today, senators accepted the
House-approved resolution by 1
vote of "a to IS.
Technically, the plan has no
finally cleared the Legislature
Passage of the measure coulc
be reconsidered in either House
but the overwhelming votes indi
cate the possibility of reconsider
alton is slight.
However, the plan still face:
possible rejection at the polls On
in the courts.
Chancery judge w. T. Horton
of Kinds County, who threatened
to impose his plan this month
unless the Legislature came UP
with a ''fair and equitable" plan
said he has not explored the
Continued en- page q
The chronicle., 1962-12-13
Tulane to admit
Neqro students

NEW ORLEANS CUPID - The
Tulane board of administrators
Wednesday said they would admit
qualified Negro students to the
previously all-white university al
the start of the new semester in
February.
On Dec. S, US Dist. Judge
Frank B. Ellis, ruled that Tulane
was a private Institution and
could not be forced to admit
Negroes, but could admit them
voluntarily if they wished.
The action was not unexpected,
because the Tulane board had
said in 1861 that it would admit
all qualified students, without re-
gard to race or color if it were
legally permissible.
Joseph M. Jones, president of
the board, said after the meeting
that the group had voted unan-
imously to admit Negroes.
The action cleared the way for
two Negro women, Barbara Gull
lory and Pearlie Elloie, both of
New Orleans, to enter the school
IN February.
They filed suit in federal court
IN September of 1861 seeking ad-
mission because they claimed Tu-
Jane was a state institution.
There was some question as to
The effect Of the endowment OF
Paul Tulane, who had specified
that only white students could be
admitted to the university, but
Ellis said no could could enforce
the racial restrictions in the en-
dowment.
The chronicle., 1962-12-13
= from ingalls,
named by NINA
TO committees

Seven ingalls, men are working
on Mississippi Manufacturers AS
sociation committees planning
1855 work.
They are Earl r. Hammett,
chairman Of special services and
member of membership commit
tees; d. z. H.1flrsen, rGyrou tax.
James r Moran, public rela-
TORS; f. A. ChOquette. irldGi-
trial relations; nj. A. Weeks, In
dustrial training.
G. w. Howell. taxation, and wv.
r. Guest Jr., forest industries.
The chronicle., 1962-12-13

HOLLOMAN Air Force Base,
N. Mex. CUPID - A high-altitude
balloon flight 10 give man his
first clear look at the stars has
been launched in perfect weather
nom here. The two man crew
is expected to rise $1,000 feet on
the scheduled 2O1hour mission on
the highest astronomical research
ascension in history.
The chronicle., 1962-12-13
Docket is light
for city court

Pascagoula city court had one
of its lightest docketS today.
Court clerk r. H. Broadus said
three persons on the docket for
feited their bonds.
One was charged with public
drunkenness and two with traffic
violations.
The chronicle., 1962-12-13
Top news
from UPI
CHICAGO CUPID - Here is

CHICAGO CUPID - Here is a
look at weather conditions.
Indiana, Ohio and Michigan
are getting lighter but continuing
snow for the eighth Sasai Int day.
And heavy snow Squalls that have
hit southwestern New York State
for eight days are zeroing in on
the Buffalo metropolitan area.
PARIS CUPID - Secretary of
state RuSk has told the opening
session of a critical NATO mimi
sters meeting in Paris that the
US will not plan amy further
negotiations with Russia until the
Cuban question is settled. RuSk
specifically ruled olt amy East
West talks on Berlin.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-06-21
Welsh Rare Bit
Teachers Are Thanked

I am sad. But all Of my tears are little
ones. Come this September, it win be the
first time in 10 years that no member of
our family is in the Mungummery County
Public School system. For our daughter,
Margaret, who is about to learn to hit
good forehand drive, was graduated this June
from Richard Montgomery High School. That
event was the conclusion of program of ele-
mentary and high school education for our
daughters which had been decided upon years
ago. It was not an easy decision to make.
Perhaps it is worth talking about.
The issue was whether 1t would be pri-
vate school or Mungummery County pub
lie school There was a lot of dust thrown
around. Some thought the members of the
Board Of Education were doubledoomed edu-
Gators living In space ships. Others thought
they were men who knew all the answers.
But no one lives in a space ship, and no
one knows all answers. 1t also was within
my personal knowledge that some men and
women had graduated from the Mungummery
County Schools without being fools or de-
PRAYED or corrupted or mentally disabled,
but, on the contrary, had carved out produc-
tive lives for themselves and the community
/ also knew these men and women had
competed successfully in universities against
other men and women who had graduated
from private schools.
But there were emotional reasons for
our daughters going to Mungummery Coun-
ty public schools. For reasons not clear to
me, l was transferred from Rockville High
School to Western High School I think it
was because played too much baseball, Soc
GER track and poker at Rockville; so 1 went
TO Western and played too much tennis But
/ have carried sense of loss within me
because got out of step with my boyhood
friends of Rockville. AS illogical as it ap-
pears, did not want our daughters to risk
having the same sense of loss.
I also have a few convictions One of
them is that if a person wants to learn;
there is no ignorance in the world that can
prevent him from learning. The trick is to
accept nothing which does not fit into your
common sense. I have tried to pass to my
daughters the unwillingness to accept the
worlds propaganda as the truth and to meas
ure what is handed out to them against their
own observations and beliefs. also believe
that if person will not learn, he cannot
learn, regardless of his educators
And SO they spent many years with the
teachers and the administrators of the Num-
gummery County Public Schools And want
to thank these men and women in this col
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-06-21
Religion Issue

In a communication" on
the editorial page of your
June z issue, Angelo ]. Zanger,
under the heading Lords
Prayer in Schools Underlies
Our Way of Life" finds it
terribly frightening" tn a I
three Maryland Court of APP
peals judges voted for "the
abolition of the Lords Prayer"
in public schools. Mr.. Zanger
seems to feel that ''the princi-
Piles upon which this country
were founded" and the wisdom
of Thomas jefferson are being
threatened.
The wisdom of jefferson
created a wall of separation
between Church and State. Mr..
Jefferson wrote of a 'loath-
some combination of Church
and State" In a letter to his
nephew, Peter Carr, on August
10, 1887, Jefferson wrote:
Fix reason firmly In her
seat, and call on her tribunal
for every fact, every opin-
ion. Question with holiness
even the existence Of a God;
because, II there be one, he
must more approve Of the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-06-21
by Barney Welsh

umn. for what little it is worth, for the
splendid work which they accomplished, not
only with my daughters, but with the young
friends who have come into our family and
PLAYED bridge, tennis, golf, and gone to old
car meets with us.
was never active in the P-TA because
1 could never overcome the idea that were
/ to come back to school as parent would
be an intruder. also do not know personal
ly more than three or four of the teachers,
but that is my loss, not the loss Of the teach
ers have not met. simply felt during all
the years our children were in public school,
that there was little could do to improve
upon the education they were getting.
And saw that education mature. I saw
the results from Miss Days art class. / read
the elder daughters letters from college and
knew she had sound foundation in English
1 heard the conversations about history,
philosophy, current events, and I noted the
language in which opinions were given; and
1 saw the students of Richard Montgomery
at the football games, and swan with them
in the ocean, and talked with them at crab
feasts and am telling you that the young
men and women of our high schools are a
testimonial to their parents and to the fac
ulty and the Board of Education of Mungum-
merry County.
There are three people I also want to
say thanks to. One is Owen Knight who
used to tutor me in history (maybe that Is
why was transferred to Westerly, another
is Guy Jewell and the one who was dear to
my heart and to the hearts of all the stu
dents who knew him, my cousin, Toadie
Riggs who died just about the time the lilacs
bloomed this year.
And one last remark, before begin to
complain about the percentage of tax money
which goes for education and call the mem
bers of the Board of Education bunch of
observation-disclosures, do you know Mrs Lucy
Kicker? l don't, but heard her speak as a
representative Of the Board of Education and
she has the makings of the finest after din.
ner speaker since Mark Twain. She has a
peculiar combination of Yankee wit and yam
and magnolia drawl that she exhibited In
that rarest of all speeches, really first rate
commencement talk at the graduation exer.
clses OF Richard Montgomery High School.
II you have read this far, please do not
be alarmed. The aforegoing statements are
the last nice things I will say about any.
thing for at least year, but like the ground
hog, l come out once year and smile
viii now revert to my cranky old self and
mediate upon the potential of the hydrogen
bomb.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-06-21
Back To Myths

According to President Ken
nedy's speech at Yale, we are
back in the days of mythology.
In those days if any thing
turned out good the King took
credit but If 1t turned out bad,
it was blamed on some terrible
god. The people were expect
ed to believe some great god
pushed up the mountains and
sank the valleys. Today we
are expected to believe some
terrible god pushed up the ma
tional debt and sank industry.
Those Greeks were not SO
dumb for believing in their
mythical gods. Today we are
expected to believe the US.
Treasury has a continuous
never-ending stream of credit
that never needs to be replen-
ished and every one who par
takes of that stream shall
never want for any thing and
shall be so happy and content
ed they viii worship the great
and powerful god Kennedy
who is so powerful he can buy
the everlasting friendship of
that other god Khrushchev.
Kennedy is right, we are
back in the days of myth
ology.
George A. BirdsaIl
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-06-21

We should like to commend
you and compliment Joe Bou-
chard, who has demonstrated
keen insight and real ability in
his coverage of the interscho-
lastic athletics Of the county.
We believe that a continued
broad coverage of high school
sports will prove to be in the
interest of the community, and
from the standpoint of county
circulation, in the interest of
the newspaper. We hope your
present policy of broad cover
age will be pursued when the
high school athletic programs
resume in the fall.
In behalf of Northwood
High School particularly, we
extend our sincere thanks.
M. w. Jensen, Chairman
Athletic Advisory Board
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-06-21
'GulIant BoftIe'

AS a P. S. to the recent spe.
cial session of the Maryland
legislature, there is an untold
story that could be headed,
"Schweinhaut Fights Gallant
but Lonely Battle on Senate
Judiciary Committee"
Symbolic of the existing
malapportionment, the Judi
cial Proceedings Committee of
the Maryland Senate has nine
members from the small over
represented counties, three
from the City of Baltimore,
but just one from the subur.
ban areas in the state - our
own Sen. Peggy Schweinhaut.
After taking testimony the
final week of the session, the
committee chairman ordered
everyone except legislators
and the press to leave the
hearing room. (However, the
door was left open because Of
the heat.)
1t was then that the small
county boys loosened their
ties, rolled up their sleeves,
and went to work on the
already watered down bill be-
fore them to reapportion the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-06-21
Where the Responsibility Lies!

The present dispute between the Washington Subur-
ban Sanitary Commission and the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Commission which route
the line should follow to the international Business
Machines building Gaithersburg highly unfortunate
1t again points up the confusion which results from
independent or semindependent agencies working by
themselves uncoordinated by the County Council.
BY taking the firm positions they have-n direct con-
fict with each other-the WSSC and the M-NCPPC are
inadvertently illustrating the point that somebody needs
to coordinate land and development and laying of
lines which usually determine development. Obviously,
the only agency to do this is the County Council
When the County Councl-after more than decade
of hard fighting by citizen groups the power in 1859
to veto trunk sewer laying plans of the WSSC it
major victory. Before that the WSSC operated auono-
mousy and the Council which should be the policy estab
fishing body land development matters had choice
but to follow the lead of the water and agency.
Last year, the M-NCPPC and the County Council
in strong conflict the Rock Creek Watershed
Master Plan County Council members said they did not
like the plan prepared by the M-NCPPC and returned it
for study. communication not germane to the points
raised by the County Council returned but since then
the issue has been dormant The planners reaction to the
county governments objections seemed to be of
sentiment So here it seems, they acting in indie
pendent or semindependent way.
Both the WSSC and the M-NCPPC should remember
that all of the planners and two of the three sanitary
missoners appointed by the County Council The pow
to appoint these members wrested from the General
Assembly after much effort. And with good reason.
The County Council is composed of elected representa-
lives Of Montgomery County taxpayers and theirs of
course the ultimate responsibility for the way in which
Montgomery County should grow Both the WSSC and
the M-NCPPC should remember that they subordinate
agencies
Happily, result of the 1859 authority to veto
major WSSC sewer lines, the County Council is in the
drivers seat It and it alone must resolve the problem.