Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 14

M. E. Wainwright HE'S 'MR. ATLAS' CU ClMlOn'LtWt JACKSON DAILY NEWS FECTION A Sunday, January 1960 Service Monday Little Known, He's Melvin Eugene Wainwright, former resident of Jackson, died Thursday in Dallas, Texas, where A Powerful Individual he had lived for the past 30 yearj. He was a retired realtor and oil broker, and was a member of By RALPH DIGHTON INiDIO, Calif.

(AP) Splashing the Church of Christ. around in a king-size pool on a He leaves no survivors. Funeral services will be con king-size estate in this winter playground for king-size million ducted Monday at 10 a.m. from and driven incognito in Europe for conferences with royalty and he was tramped over some of America's most rugged terrain lugging a pick and Geiger counter. At one time he controlled two major movie studios, Paramount and RKO.

That was in the 1930s, after Jacqueline had introduced him to fellow flying enthusiast Howard 'Hughes, industrialist and movie maker. aires is a powerful but little-known financial giant. the graveside, Cedar Lawn Ceme-. tery, with the Rev. Floyd O'Dom officiating.

His name is Floyd Bostwick Odium. He will be buried by the side of ill f' As the founder and chairman his wife, the former Etta Brown, who died in 1964. of the board of the Atlas 7 the 68-year-old Odium has run such far-flung enterprises as oil AFTER FIRE Odium helped reorganize Paramount Pictures, underwrote loans to revive the company and took 4. IS SS fc. companies, aircraft plants ana movie studios.

I v. part in its management. SOLD OUT RKO The Securities and Exchange 4( i-i ''si SS Hi Commission recently approved his Then he tackled a much tougher Negro Group Needs Help A New Year brings happiness to aplication to merge five uranium job at RKO. The firm was bankrupt when he took over in 1935, firms into a single company for mining the raw stuff of atomic power. he sold out to Hughes for eight million dollars.

Counting stock many; it also means tragedy for Odium went into uranium in dividends in the meantime, Odium's profit was 17 million dollars. some. 1954 with his 10 million dollars, The latter is the case of Ernest The experience helped crystal and Anna Rufus, Negroes of th BEGINS ANOTHER TERM H. T. (Bubber) Ashford, was sworn in Saturday beginning his sixth term as Hinds county circuit clerk.

He has been serving in his present capacity since 1940. Photo by Claude Sutherland. the profit from the sale of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. He bought prospector Vernon Pick's uranium-rich hidden Solendor mine lize Odium's policy: to buy in NEW DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND ASSISTANT CONGRATULATED Circuit Judge Leon Hendrick, left, congratulates new Hinds Dist. Atty.

Bill Waller, right, and Waller's assistant, John Henry Fox, IJI. The judge administered the oath of office to the pair Saturday. Photo by Claude Sutherland. Ridgeland-Madison area. when a firm is in trouble, put it Anna in University Hospital.

on its feet, then sell at a profit- in Utah and soon acquired others. She suffers from a rare type of diabetes. She has been unable to A self-made millionaire, Odium but leave plenty for the man who buys it. CIVIL RIGHTS has shunned publicity most of his life. Yet he has been married for work for more than a year.

One of the best examples of mis was his purchase of Convair in fire Friday razed the Rums' Continued from Page 1A 22 years to one of the nation's 1947. With the slowdown of mill cent ceiling removed from the interest the government can offer on its new marketable bonds. He house destroying even Christmas presents which were never opened. tary contracts after the war, Con most glamorous and well-known women blonde Jacqueline Coch longer so confident their party will have the issues with which it can ride to the White House in No vair was having difficulty finding The structure was a total loss. The blaze also wiped out the ran.

money to build a new series of His search for "special sftua airliners. feels this is even more urgent now than last summer when he termed it the most important issue before Congress. belongings of their daughter and cVA ft tions" -his term for distressed vember. Compounding the Democrat's companies which need his organ difficulty in jockeying for a polit Mike Moore Will Organized labor's chief goal is izing touch to bear profits has FT taken him over most of the world, sometimes on missions of cloak- ical advantage if (1) four senators are seeking the Democratic presidential nomination and (2) the session is expected to be the enactment of federal standards that would require many states to parcel out more generous unemployment checks to the jobless. Head Forest Hill Masons For 1960 and-dagger flavor.

her' four children. The daughter had been living with them to help care for Anna. The children range ki age from mx months to 10 years. Anyone wishing to help the Negroes with contributions of clothing, food, home furnishing, or other items may contact Mrs. C.

P. Perry, 414 Downing, telephone EM8-5105. Anna worked as a maid at the He has been caught up South shortest in eight years. Congress Farm Surpluses Another stale FOREST H1LL-J. M.

(Mike) American revolutions in search of new oil properties. He has flown Moore has been installed as wor mate is In prospect, witn any legislation on which Congress can agree likely to be vetoed. The shipful master of the Forest Hill wants to quit before the national political conventions start July 11. In the interim it will face these big issues: Civil Rights The Senate has Masonic Lodge No. 613, AM, administration wants prices sup School Pictures Convention Set for 1960.

ports lowered. Democratic farm Other officers are: Vernon leaders favor tighter production Perry home for many years. agreed to begin consideration of controls but want supports raised For Jan. 4-6 to offset the resultant drop in this controversial topic Feb. 15.

A House bill is pigeon-holed in the conservative dominated Rules Smith, senior warden; William R.I George, junior Clifford Hall Battle, treasurer; Carl Burns, secretary; James George farm income. School the na Committee. Northern Democrats tion's largest school picture com fear they'll have to resort to a discharge petition to get it to the pany, headquartered here Jackson, will hold its annual convention in the Robert E. Lee Godwin Service To Be Monday Manska, senior deacon; Clinton R. McNeece, junior deacon; William Prentiss Barber, tyler; George K.

Jones, chaplin; and Roy C. Wagster, marshall. Curtis Morphis, past grand master of the Grand Lodge of Missis Hotel, January 4-6. floor. Congress is expected to enact some kind of moderate program but only after a time-consuming battle.

And in the end the Some 150 salesmen from most of the 50 states are expected to Funeral services for Johnnie Paul Godwin, 56, of 1444 Old Brandon road, will be conducted Monday at 3:00 p.m. from Griffith Memorial Baptist Church, with attend. sippi, AM, was the installing NEW SHERIFF J. R. (Bob) Gilfoy is sworn in as Hinds county sheriff.

Gil-foy's four-year term officially begins Monday. Circuit Judge Leon F. Hendrick, back to camera, administered the oath of office Saturday. Photo by Claude Sutherland. best the Northern Democrats can hope for is a measure patterned after that recommended last year by President Eisenhower.

This officer. Ben Smith, general manager for Bell Telephone Co. in St. Louis, and Arch would merely neutralize the issue Dr. Kermit Canterbury, pastor, officiating.

He died early Saturday morning at Mississippi Baptist Hospi for the election campaign. Maulsby, sales counselor for the United Safety Service Company of Kansas City, Mo. will be featur MRS. FLORENCE FENTON Services 10 a.m. Monday Baldwin Chapel Burial Cedarlawa Cemetery DAYMON M.

FLODBERG Services 11 a.m. Monday 1 Graveside National Cemetery, Vicksburg BALDWIN FUNERAL HOME TO Maniblp St. Phon. FL S-I7fl MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME tU W. Capitol St.

Phona FL t-S48 tal, after an illness of only one ed speakers. School Construction A Democratic plan to provide one billion dollars in federal grants over the next two years was pending in the Senate when Congress adjourned day. Featured in the three day convention will be panel discussions A native of Flomaton, he was a former resident of Washing Wirt A. Williams Rites Held Saturday CLEVELAND (pi Funeral services for Wirt Alfred Williams, 77, were held Saturday. Williams, a professor emeritus of history at Delta State College, died Friday after a long illness.

He taught school at Ruth, Edwards, New Albany, Lexington, Lambert and Tupelo before going to Delta State in 1925. and talks by School Pictures, Inc sales last beptemoer. Democrats are confident they can push it through the Senate early this year but conceded they 11 have a tough time winning House approval. In Flodberg Services Slated Monday ton, D. Memphis, and Pensacola, and had lived in Jackson frequently during the past 30 years.

He was a former manager of the Livingston Park Zoo, now known as the R. M. Taylor Zoo. He was presently employed by Howard L. Byrd, painting contractor.

He was a Baptist. Survivors are his wife, the for any event, the bill would face an almost certain veto. Largely for budgetary reasons, the Democratic plan is opposed by the Funeral services will be conduct ed at 11 a.m. Monday from grave si side in the National Cemetery in President. He recommended instead a "pay-later" bond plan which has evoked little enthusi Wreck Kills One Ann Hollo-way, 24, of Booneville was killed Friday in a head-on collision ou state highway 536 near Jacinto.

Vicksburg for Daymen M. Flod Can Serve Yea letter PHONE FL l-464 mer Bessie Beatrice uumore ot berg, 73, of Jackson, who died asm among either Democrats or Republicans. Jackson; one son, Johnie Paul Godwin, of Jackson; one daughter, Mrs. E. W.

Kilpatrick, Wednesday at the Veteran's Hospital here after an extended illness Mr. Flodberg was born and rear BITTER BATTLE Minimum Wage This probably and four grandchildren, Beverly ed in Belzom. He had uvea in will provide a replay of the bitter Fern, Michael Kelvin S. and Jackson for the past 15 years. 'First of the Week" SPECIALS! Chaplain H.

W. Vaughn will of-ficate at the services and Baldwin lobbying battle between labor and business which marked passage last year of the Labor Reform Clifford S. Kilpatrick, all of Tyn-dall Air Force Base, two brothers, Eugene Godwin, of Flo maton, and Jake Godwin, of iOT ift: Bill. Organized labor, which feels it has nothing yet to show for helping to elect Democrats to this Pensacola, and two sisters, Funeral Home will be in charge. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.

Alice Boren Flodberg of Jackson, and a half sister, Mrs. Lula Haring of Belzoni. DOWNTOWN STORE ONLYt Mrs. Louis Miller and Mrs. Crawford Turner, both of Flomaton.

Congress, wants the $1.00 per hour minimum wage boosted to His body will be at the home of SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES ARE SWORN IN New Sheriff Bob Gilfoy, left, looks on as his deputies receive the oath of office from Judge Leon Hendrick Saturday. The deputies are, from left, Frank Jones, chief, Bill Shuttleworth, George Jones, and Neil Hollingsworth. Photo by Claude Sutherland. $1.25 and the program extended to cover millions of additional workers. Pro-1 a Democrats CLEARANCE OF conceded privately they'll have FRESH FLOWERS for all occasion! Smith Gardens 2018 N.

Lamar FL 4-1521 San J. Hart, 425 Porter street, until the funeral hour. Interment will be in Cedar Lawn Cemetery. Pallbearers will be W. W.

Gil-more, W. L. Holmes, Jimmie Cooper, X. M. Gilmore, Wyatt Boyett and Billy Barrett.

tantrm US. AT Htt tUHU to settle for much less and will Foster Rites have a fight on their hands get ting even that. Set For Monday Eisenhower wants the Mi per Mrs. A. R.

Foster. 70. died Sat DRAPERY FABRICS Barkcloth, acetates and others in florals, moderns and scenics. Values to 69c a yard. in urday following an illness of several months.

1 She was native of Lincoln county GALA WEST INDIES S. AMERICA CRUISES and had lived in Jackson since 1922. She was a member of Cal Sailing from NEW GALVESTON 2 fa- E3 vary Baptist Church where she belonged to the W.M.U. and Mrs. Slaughter's Sunday School class.

sftl Survivors include her husband, one sister, Mrs. Emma Akers of 3 i iFi i i Jm. r- i jr Jackson; one brother, Alonzo Smith of Jackson, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held from the Wright and Ferguson SUNDAY WEATHER Rain or drizzle will fall on east and Gulf coast states except central and southern Florida and will continue in. Ohio aid Tennessee Valleys.

Snow and snow flurries will fall in the Dakotas and from eastern Nebraska across Iowa into Great Lakes region, extreme northern New England and in the Rockies. AP Wirephoto. Colder This Year Chapel at 2 p.m. Monday. Inter ment will be in the Lakewood Memorial Park Cemetery.

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49c yd. 100 Air Conefitioned 26,900 tons displacement Temperature 48 47 7 Dwpon-t 41 4 VI Blttv Humidity 1 Wind Direction, Fabulous continental cuisine, the gourmets' delight, with superb meals a Gracious Italian hospitality by over 600 expertly trained officers and rn final rites will be held at 10 a.m. Monday from Baldwin Funeral chapel for Mrs. Florence men Indoor and outdoor swimming; pools Broadway entertainment MR. JOHNNIE PAUL GODWIN, SR.

1444 Old Brandon Rd. Services 3 p.m. Monday Velocity ESE11 ESE3 ESEU NWS Fenton, 70, of Jackson, who died GU rnday at her residence at 1227 Se Level Barometer 10 04 30 01 KM 7 SrNDAT FORECASTS Gymnasium, massage tables, steam rooms a Trap shooting Horse racing a First-run movies- Complete round of shipboard activities, including bridge and canasta Over 125 new staterooms with facilities convertible to aitting room, by day ALL-EXPENSE FARES FROM No. First Ave. after several weeks illness.

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Texas Sen-ices 10 a.m. Monday Graveside, Cedar Lawn Cemetery A. S3 Central Presbyterian Church. Her pastor, Dr. G.

Roland Sims, will TEMFERATTRES RAINFALL ofnciate with interment in Cedar Lew Rain Hir Atlanta, 37 Birmingham 50 Lawn cemetery. Wright (i Ferguson Survivors include one daughter, Boston 45 Mrs. A. W. Karlak of Jackson; 33 3 23 34 0 30 43 -10 March 11, 1960 Nw Orfoemt, Moat Bay, Grand Caymcaa tat (Jamaica).

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