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voiced objections and said an injunction was in order to prevent further interferference.
Later I was unofficially informed that Commissioner Kidd would seek through the Chancery Court an extention of time for verification of the petitions.
On Sunday, January 30, a news item appearing on Page 1, Sea Coast Echo with headline PETITION MAY NOT BE VERIFIED BY MONDAY AND CARRYING BY_LINE JERRY WHITTLE (see article attached) said in part: "Bay St. Louis Commissioner Lucian Kidd told the ECHO in a Friday interview that he had received an opinion from the State Attorney General's office concerning the time allotment
for verification of the names on the petition.............. An
assistant in the Attorney General's office reportedly told Kidd the election commission would have a " reasonable amount of time in which to check the list."
On Sunday afternoon, January 30, on or about 3:15 P.m. I placed a person-to-person long distance call from my home number -467-5551 to the honorable Heber Ladner, secretary of state, at his Jackson residence phone No. 982-0867 (Office is 354-6541) and informed him the statements reportedly made by Kidd and in The Echo. Following is information on that call as transcribed from my XKX2UQCOBBGC short-hand notes:
Q.	Heber, tell	me, how many assistance does the	attorney general have
A.	I would say	he has eight or nine assistants.
Q. Do these assistance have the authority to render an opinion?
A. There is a tremendous amount of work % these assistants study the various issues, write their opinions and submit them to the	Attorney General. No opinion is	valid unless it
is given in	writing and goes out over the signature of the
attorney general. Because of the back-log of work piled