POWERFUL CLUSTER—Space flight beyond the Moon requires unique propulsion. NASA’s

Lewis Research Center at Cleveland, Ohio, is doing extensive research on electric engines, currently one of the leading competitors for a future manned mission to Mars. The Kauf* man ion engines shown here were invented, designed and perfected at Lewis. Since hundreds of such low-thrust electric engines would be needed for deep space flights, Lewis’ research centers on the problems of clustering many engines to operate together. The technician here

is checking a nine-engine array after its initial test in the Lewis space tank. (NASA Photo)

Scientists To Study Disease In Bolivia

NEW YORK (UPI) A group of American scientists will journey into the relatively uninhabited lowlands of Eastern Bolivia next April in an effort to determine the cause of the deadly disease hemorrhagic fever.

A team of scientists from the American Museum of Natural History will join with medical teams in Bolivia in an attempt to locate the ectoparasites which are believed to carry the di- sease.

The disease, which causes in- ternal bleeding and other symp- toms, has afflicted at least 600 persons in Bolivia during the past four years with a mortality rate of approximately 20 per cent.

Dr. Richard G. Van Gelder, who will head the museum’s scientific team, said his group will collect mammals in the

Says Questions Stiil Unanswered On Assassination

WASHINGTON (UPI) For- mer U. S. Secret Service Chief U. E. Baughman has said! that there were unanswered questions about President Kennedy’s assassination that “should be resolved.”

Baughman, who guarded pres- idents as chief of the Secret Service for 13 years, said “the plain fact is that you cannot protect the President from ev-

ery danger. And the greatest danger is from a sniper hiding in a high building.”

In a copyright interview with U.S. News & World Report, Baughman said he didn’t know if the Secret Service did all it could to protect Kennedy be- cause he wasn’t in Dallas on the day of the assassination.

“But I can’t understand why Mrs. Kennedy had to climb over the back of the car as she did to get help,” Baughman said.

News photographs showed Mrs. Kennedy helping Secret Service agent Clint Hill into the presidential limousine after her husband was wounded.

Baughman said that one rea- son that agents weren’t next to Kennedy on the running board of his car was that the White House wouldn’t permit it

“The White House has been trying to avoid making it con-

spicuous that you’re guarding the President closely,” he said.

Asked if there were any mis- takes in the Dallas security pre- parations, Baughman said, “as an investigator, I can think of a lot of questions, but I wasn’t there. The only thing I can say is that the Secret Service does not have enough men.”

area and the ectoparasites which they carry. He said their primary objective will be to de- termine whether or not the hemorrhagic fever virus can be found in the animal population of the region.

The museum team will work together with scientists from the; Middle America Research Unit (MARU), an agency of the Na- tional Institute of Health and the Walter Reed Research Insti- tute, which has been trying to isolate the virus.

Dr. Van Gelder said the expedition would probablv last about six months, the scientists would travel along the Rio Itenez living in a 53-foot house- boat complete with a labora- tory. They would make nu-

merous stops to collect animals and carry out their research.

Dr. Van Gelder said the great- est problem will be one in logis- tics.

“There are no roads, few peo- ple, an uncertain food supply and no adequate geographic in- formation about the area in which we will work,” he said. “The region is biologically un-

explored.” He said, however, that the

boat would be stocked with a

six-month’s food supply and would provide purified water.

The team from MARU has been working in the area for the past six months in an all- out program to isolate the virus determine what animals are

carrying the disease and find the modes of transmission.

Sellers Heading Heart Fund In

George County LUCEDALE (Special) Os-

car Sellers was named as chair- man of the George County Heart Fund Committee recently at the county association’s meeting.

Featured at the meeting was

Mrs. Pat Roundtree, chairman of the Mississippi Heart Fund Association of the southern Dis- trict. |

Other officers chosen were Mrs. J. A. Nyman, county coun-

cil chairman; James Pearsons, campaign treasurer, and J. F. Averett, campaign secretary, also Mrs. Nettie Dorsett, gift chairman.

The county goal will be $1100 for the drive to be held in the month of February.

America’s CUP

LONDON (UPI) America’s Cup yacht racing grew out of an international world cham- pionship staged by the London Exposition of 1851 and won by the United States yacht “Amer- ica.”

Lone Survivor In

Family Facing Bleak Christmas

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (UPI) —A baby girl who was the only survivor of an auto-train colli- sion last week which claimed the lives of 11 members of her family, is facing a bleak and lonely Christmas.

Fut the town where little Margaret Ann Langford, 13 months, and her father, Thom- as Langford, now live, plans to make the Christmas spirit blanket the tragic memory.

Midland City Mayor John Daniels said, “We are as busy

I as we can be trying to do some-

thing for this family at Christ- mas time. They need so much.”

The child was carried away from the wreck in which her mother; her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Langford; two aunts; two uncles and four of her cousins died Dec. 7.

The wreck, in which a freight engine plowed into a station wagon carrying the family, was

the worst such collision in Ala- bama history.

Her father, a seasonal farm worker and employe of a Eu- faula building and wrecking firm, moved with Margaret Ann to the home of a sister with a

stack of medical and funeral bills. He was scheduled to re-

turn to work today. He said in- surance policies carried by some of the victims had lapsed.

The Rev. Lloyd Snellgrove, pastor of the Midland City Corn- unity Church where the family worshiped, said $714 had been received by the church in its special fund.

Mayor Daniels said neighbor- ing churches and towns had added about $300, which he is keeping to pay the bills at Southeast Alabama General Hospital at Dothan.

Daniels brought Margaret Ann her first Christmas gift this year—a huge, bright-red Santa1 Claus doll

Pull Out Brands Of Liquor Firms

Planning Boycott MONTGOMERY (UPI) —Liq-

uor store owners around the state are pulling from their shelves some brands distributed by major liquor firms which threaten to boycott the state, ABC commissioner James E. Caldwell said.

Persons wanting to buy the brands will have to ask for them by name, he said.

Six major liquor companies have announced they would boycott Alabama if a scheduled 34 per cent gross sales tax goes into effect Jan. 1.

Caldwell said the brands are

being removed “to let the pub- lic see items that will continue to be in our stores.’*

Supreme Court Denies Writ Of Habeas Corpus

JACKSON (UPI) The State Court refused Monday to free Negro William Smith Jr., from a death sentence for the rape of a white teen-aged girl.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which entered the case after Smith was convicted in Madison County, charged he was not given proper legal rep- resentation by his court-appoint- ed defense attorney, Jack W. Greaves.

A request by the ACLU for a writ of habeas corpus to free Smith from death row was heard and denied by the Circuit Court of Sunflower County. The Supreme Court upheld the de- nial.

The ACLU charges, said the high court, were “answered, or explained” by Graves during the hearing. It said testimony failed to show that Smith “was denied any rights or that he was unlawfully treated or un-

constitutionally or wrongfully convicted.”

An execution date has not been set for Smith, who was ac-

cused of holding a knife on a

teen-aged boy and attacking his female companion after finding them parked on a rural road near Canton.

The high court voided a Lin- coln County supervisor’s race in the Aug. 6 Democratic primary and ordered a new election.

Leroy Leggett was apparently the winner of the four-man race after the first tabulation, which gave him 863 votes to 394 for Esco Wallace, 178 for Lloyd Case and 53 for Alson Hart. But Wallace and Case canvassed the ballots and found that 478 were not initialed by precinct work- ers as required by law.

The county Democratic com- mittee threw out these ballots but did not overturn Leggett’s victory because he had re- ceived a majority of the re-

maining votes. Its decision was

upheld by a lower court panel but reversed by the Supreme Court.

Failure of precinct workers to initial 478 ballots, said the Su- preme Court, was a “substan- tial” enough violation to require the ordering of a new election.

Court To Decide Boundary Fight in Mississippi

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide a boundary dispute between Louisiana and Missis- sippi involving oil-rich land un-

der the Mississippi River. The tribunal granted Louisia-

na permission to file a suit and allowed 90 days for Mississippi to file an answer.

Louisiana argued that the Su- preme Court should exercise its original jurisdiction over border disputes between states. Missis- sippi contended there was no true controversy and urged the court to reject the case.

At issue is whether a subsur- face oil well under the river bed is located in Louisiana or Mis- sissippi.

The well, drilled in 1954 from the Louisiana bank of the river, has been producing oil ever since. A group of private citi- zens filed suit in federal court at Vicksburg, Miss., a year ago, claiming that the well was with- in Mississippi’s borders. They asked damages from the oil company.

Three Soldiers Killed In Crash In S. Viet Nam SAIGON, South Vtet Nam

(UPI)—The bodies of three U.S. Army soldiers lost when their helicopter crashed off the coast of South Viet Nam Saturday night were discovered Monday washed ashore on a remote beach.

Names of the dead were with- held until their relatives are

notified. An American military spokes-

man said it appeared that the three men drowned.

Their deaths and that of a U.S. Army officer killed by Communist Viet Cong guerril- las Sunday raised to 12 the number of American fatalities in the past four days. A total of 129 Americans now have been killed in South Viet Nam combat since January, 1981, when the U.S. buildup began here. Another 29 U.S. troops have died in non-combat acci- dents.

Court Upholds Henry Judgment

JACKSON (UPI)- The State Supreme Court Monday upheld a

$25,000 judgment against Negro civil rights leader Aaron Henry in a libel suit by Thomas H. Pearson, the prosecuting attor- ney of Coahoma County.

Pearson and Clarksdale Po- lice Chief Ben Collins fibd sep- arate suits against Henry after he claimed in a public state- ment that his arrest on a mor- als charge was a “diabolical plot cooked up” by the two of- ficials.

Pearson sought $25,000 and Collins $15,000. Each was awarded the requested dam- ages by a Coahoma Circuit jury. Collins’ victory was upheld earlier this month by the Su- preme Court

State Neoroes Denied Hearing In ixing Case

WASHINGTON (UPI) The Supreme Court Monday denied a

hearing to a group of Negroes fighting Mississippi segregation laws.

The brief order leaves stand- ing a decision against the group handed down April 23, 1963, by the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Ap- peals. That court affirmed a

ruling of May 16, 1962, by Fed- eral District Judge Sidney C. Mize.

The challenged laws allow op- erators of hotels and retail es-

tablishments to choose their customers and prohibit state of- ficials from carrying out the Supreme Coort’s 1954 and 1955 school integration decisions. A third statute punishes conspir- acy to “overthrow or violate the segregation laws of this state.”

Rev. L. A. Clark and other Jackson Negroes sued for an order barring enforcement of these laws.

Their complaint said that Ne- groes who had attempted to use the city library, Livingston Park and other public facilities were arrested.

Mize refused to hold that the complainants could act for all Negroes—a procedure known as

a “class action.” He also refused to issue an

order that the particular Ne- groes who sued could use the public recreational facilities, al- though he ruled they had a

right to use them. Mize said the individual de-

fendants, including Mayor Allen C. Thompson, “are all outstand- ing, high class gentlemen” who would not violate the terms of a court judgment.

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I"Wonder Boy' To Face Charge Of Embezzling

NEW YORK (UPI) Finan- cial “boy wonder” Earl Belle, who fled to Brazil from Pitts- burgh five years ago when his

1 multimillion dollar manipula- tions went sour, went before a U. S. commissioner today for formal removal to Pennsyl- vania, the U. S. attorney’s office announced today.

Belle, 31, is under indictment by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of fraud and conspiracy. Acting U. S. Atty. Gustave Diamond an-

nounced in Pittsburgh that he was ready to prosecute Belle.

Belle, disheveled and weary looking, arrived in the United States Saturday aboard a jet- liner from Rio de Janeiro where he fled five years ago, leaving behind “untold losses” to Amer- ican investors.

According to Brazilian police, Belle had become involved in a

currency exchange fraud there and had been given the alterna- tive of returning to the United States or facing Brazilian jus- tice. Belle allegedly wrote $70,- 000 worth of rubber checks to

exchange houses involving the purchase of Brazilian cruzeiros.

A short time after he landed, the balding former financier was

taken to FBI headquarters, then arraigned in federal court on the 20 counts of fraud and conspiracy. Bond was set at $60,000.

Belle told U.S. Commissioner John B. Garrity he had come

back to this country voluntari- fly “to face the charges against me.”

The financial empire estab- lished by Belle, and others in- cluded the Cornucopia Gold Mines, Inc., Manufacturers Bank of Edgewater, N.J., two electronics companies, a water heater manufacturer and a

drapery firm, valued at the time at 3.5 million.

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