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Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 9

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Data From U.S. WEATHER BUREAU 20 10 4. FORECAST 3 Flurries Figures Show High Temperatures Expected Daytime Tuesday melated Precipitation Net Indicated Consult Local PLENTY OF PRECIPITATION The forecast for Tuesday shows snow over the northern and central Rockies and from the Mississippi Valley into the Appalachians, with rain in the Pacific area, Carolinas central Gulf states. It will be warmer in the southeast and colder in the Rockies and central plains. AP Wirephoto Map.

It's Threatening Again U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE WEATHER BUREAU Jackson, Mississippi Climatological Data Tuesday, Feb. 1 Forecasts Jackson and Vicinity: Cloudy, Ing, turning colder Tuesday night and Wednesday, occasional rain, low near 40, high near 50, low Tuesday night 32. Barnett Reservoir: Southerly winds 10-20 knots, shifting to northerly late Tuesday, cloudy, occasional rain. North Mississippi: Cloudy and warmer Tuesday, occasional rain ending Tuesday, turning colder Tuesday.

Wednesday partly cloudy and colder, lows Tuesday morning 30-40, highs 36-46. South Mississippi: Mostly cloudy through Wednesday, widely scattered showers, lows 36-46, highs, 50-60. Sunset Tuesday P.M. Sunrise Wednesday 6:55 A.M. Monday Record In Jackson Midnight 6A.M.

12Nocn 6P.M. Temperature 18 26 40 50 Dewpoint 10 11 25 39 Relative Humidity Direction and Velocity SSE5 SE10 SE15 SE14 Sea Level Barometer 30.31 30.25 30.16 30.01 Temperature Today Year Ago Record Highest 51 43 82 in 1911 Lowest 17 16 in 1940 Precipitation last 24 hours: None. Pearl River at Jackson at 5 P.M.: 17.3 feet, down 0.6 foot. State and National Temperatures and Rainfall High Low Rain Biloxi Columbus Greenwood JACKSON McComb Meridian Tupelo Atlanta Birmingham Boston Buffalo, N.Y. 1.26 Charlotte, N.C.

Chicago Denver Detroit Ft. Worth Helena, Mont. Little Rock Los Angeles Memphis 30 Miami Beach 62 Minneapolis Mobile New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Phoenix, Ariz. St. Louis 18 San Francisco Seattle Shreveport 54 30 Washington 34 9 Wichita, Kan.

27 16 Nation's Cold Spot: Aberdeen, S. Dak. 18 Below. Nation's Hot Spot: McAllen, Tex. 76.

OBITUARIES J. R. 'Bob' Keyes J. R. "Bob" Keyes, 73, re tired druggist and longtime resident of Florence, died Monday morning at Mississippi Baptist Hospital, after a long illness.

Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 3 p.m. from Wright and Ferguson Chapel, with Rev. Horace his pastor, officiating, assisted by Rev. James Fancher, pastor of First Baptist Church of Florence, and Rev. M.

L. McCormick, pastor of Richland Methodist Church. He was a native of Mt. Olive, and had lived in Florence for the past 26 years. Mr.

Keyes was a member of the Florence Methodist Church, where he served on the Board of Stewards. He was a member of Mississippi State Pharmaceutical Association and Rankin County Chamber of Commerce, and was a charter member of Florence Lions Club. His survivors are his wife, the former Loulie Butler; two daughters, Sol Weems of Columbia, and Mrs. E. A.

Campbell of Madison, two sons, Ray R. Keyes of Jackson, and Doyle F. Keyes of Collins; one grandson, Jim Weems of Columbia; one granddaughter, Mrs. Kay E. Williamson, and a great-granddaughter, Deobrah Williamson, both of Collins; one brother, Charlie D.

Keyes of Gulfport; and three sisters, Mrs. Ora Wood of Jackson, Mrs. Bertha McDaniel of Columbia and Mrs. Audrey Lee of Petal. Interment will be in the Florence Cemetery.

George L. Walters Funeral services for George Lynn Walters, of 4207 Wainwright will be conducted Tuesday at 10 a.m. from the graveside, Edwards Cemetery, with Dr. G. Roland Sims, pastor of Central Presbyterian Church of Jackson, officiating.

He died unexpectedly Monday morning in the emergency room at Mississippi Baptist Hospital, following an apparent heart attack. He was a native of Gretna, and had lived in Jackson for the past 30 years. He was manufacturer's representative for Tank Company Sunray Lamps. His only survivor is his wife, the former Mary Farr Walters. Wright and Ferguson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Toy Moore Moore, 67, of 228 S. Gallatin' died at a local Nursing Home Monday at A. M. after an extended illness. He was a native of Scott County, and had made his home in Jackson for the past thirty five years.

He was a cafe operator until his rtirement. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mattie Sessums Moore of Jackson, and three brothers, Fred Moore, and Herbert Moore, both of Lena, and Lonnie Moore if Jackson. Funeral services will be held from Baldwin Funeral Home Chapel Tuesday at 2:00 p. m.

with Rev. Arzone Burns of- SEAT COVERS AS AS LOW $1195 Installed AUTO INC. 353-0161 619 S. West St. Tuesday, February 1, 1966 Che Clarion Ledger 9 Judicial Reforms Suggested In State By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Mississippi Supreme Court proposed to the legislature Monday a special Judiciary Commission be set up to study the state judicial system and recommend improvements.

The proposal, was made under a legislative bill imposing on the high court the duty of suggesting law changes. That legislature got around a state ban on salary raises for justices during their terms by imposing extra duties to qualify them for extra pay. The temporary commission would look into case loads, improved procedures, administration, revision of court district boundaries and other matters to improve justice. Among the 26 recommendations from the justices were proposals to: -Let chancellors try cases, deliver opinions and sign decrees in vacation at their discretion. -Establish in each county a jury commission of three persons named by the circuit judge draw up jury lists.

-Let. appeals from county courts be heard in vacation. -Delete from the law the requirements that grand juries look into obsolete matters such 23 Sworn In As Lawyers By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Miss. (AP)-Twenty-three new lawyers were sworn in Monday to practice bethe Mississippi Supreme Court. Those receiving the oath included: Donald Valentine Alexander Columbus, Ohio; William Howard Barr, Port Gibson; Arnold Vincent Blackwell, Pascagoula; Rees Tate Bowen III, Laurel; James W.

Burgoon Oxford; Richard Anthony Burke, New York; James Albert Dale III, Columbus; Sam Hooper Gammill, James Robert Gilfoy IV, John William Shelton and James Burns Tucker of Jackson; Clayton Taylor Lewis, Philadelphia; Charles Arthur McIntosh and Arthur May, Meridian; Carl Robert Montgomery, Canton; William Howard Roberson, Minter City; Tommy Bott Rogers, Collins; Scotty Rester Rosetti, Gulfport; Samuel Barnett Serio Natchez; Herman Guy Smith Chiefland, Joseph Joshua Stevens Macon, Edmund Jarette Walker, Biloxi, and Wren Carroll Way, Vicksburg. In bed by his wife, Ruth, when she went to check on him shortly after 2 a.m. Monday. McCord was born and raised in Jasper, coming to South Mississippi as head mechanic for Reliance Mfg. Company in Hattiesburg and Columbia.

He was a Shriner of the Wahabi Temple in Jackson, held Scottish and York Rites status and was past patron of the Eastern Star and was a member of the Columbia First Baptist Church. He continued to be active in all of his organizations until 11 years ago when he retired. Survivors are his wife, Ruth McCord; two daughters, Mrs. W. H.

Nelson, San BernarMt. Olive; four grandchildren, and three dino, and Mrs. Marvin Graham, great-grandchildren. MRS. SARAH GORDON LUCEDALE Funeral services for Mrs.

Sarah J. Gordon, 69, be held at Chapel 3 p.m. in Lucedale. Tuesday from Burial Fails be Funeral Rocky Creek cemetery. Mrs.

Gordon died Monday In Quitman at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frances Owen after long illness. She was a native of Alabama and resided in the Mt. Pisgah community of Greene County. Survivors besides Mrs.

Owens, Include two sons, R. C. Gordon, Route 4, Lucedale and B. T. Gordon, Eightmile, two sisters, Mrs.

Mary Lou Arrington, Meridian, and Mrs. Eddie J. McLendon of Daphene, one brother, Frank Journekin, Gilberton, nIne grandchildren. DR, WILLIAM TABB GREENWOOD Funeral services for Dr. William Tabb, retired local physician were held Monday from Wilson and Knight Chapel.

Dr. Tabb was a native of Montevista, Miss. and began his medical practice in Greenwood in 1928. He was a member of the Leflore County, Mississippi and American Medical Associations. He was a Mason, Shriner, and a member of the First Methodist Church.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ouida Wimbish Tabb, Greenwood; two sons, Dr. Granville Tabb Atlanta, and Dr. Harold G. Tabb of New Orleans, also one sister and four grandchildren.

JESSIE J. WALTON YAZOO CITY Funeral services for Jessie John Walton, 78 year old musician with Neeld Band Instrument Co. of here will be held Wednesday afternoon at the Gregory Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will be in Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Walton died early Monday morning at a Jackson hospital after an illness of four weeks.

He was a native of San Francisco, Calif. A veteran of World War a member of the Roy Lammons Post American Legion and a member of the Methodist Church. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Ella Glynn of Vacaville, and Mrs. Alice Ward of Sacramento, Calif.

FURNITURE SALVAGE CO. 820 SO. STATE SALE AMERICAN, EARLY FRENCH, MODERN and TRADITIONAL Hickory Rubber Early American $79.95 Prestige traditional CurvedCushion $59.95 Kroehler Modern Foam Cushion Uph Good $99.95 Contemporary, 3 $79.95 Scaly waffle French, Woodtrim, Foam rubber $99.95 All pieces new but damaged. All one-of-a-kind. Subiect to prior sale." All 1 sales final.

Free Delivery monthly payment plan $50 or more. FURNITURE SALVAGE CO. 820 SO. STATE 355-2832 Dr. Culley Dies Monday In Oxford as "bucket shops and selling -Permit pre -trial conferences in lower courts.

-Let jurymen be separated at mealtime and in sleeping accomodations except in capital cases. -Create a method of court reviews of decisions and rules of administrative agencies where none is provided by law. -Provide for court tests of administrative rules and for a central depository for listing them. -Let trial judges draw up instructions to the jury when lawyers fail do so. -And let juries fix the penalty for rape at death or a term as jurors may specify.

COLUMBIA A laundramat at 506 High School Ave. in land Plaza was badly damaged from fire of an undetermined origin early Monday. Kenneth Smith, assistant fire chief, and six other firemen operating two fire engines brought the blaze under control. Smith said that the extent of the damage to the laundramat which is owned by Willie Simmons has not been estimated. Laundramat Is Damaged By Fire Rites Held Saturday For Attala Countian KOSCIUSKO Services for Finnis T.

McCulloch, retired farmer of Bear Creek community, were held Saturday at Bear Creek Baptist Church. He was 88. Burial was in Bear Creek Cemetery. He leaves two daughters, Mrs. E.

G. McCully of Clinton, and Mrs. H. L. Wade McCool; a brother, W.

R. McCulloch of Piedmont, a Mrs. Gertrude Baxter of Hollandale; and four grandchildren. Marshal Of Ethel Is Buried Sunday KOSCIUSKO Services for Willie Edward Parks, marshal of Ethel and veteran of World War I were held Sunday at Ethel Baptist Church. He was 71.

Burial was in Stonewall Cemetery. He leaves his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Nancy Nevels of Vicksburg; six sons, Melvin Parks of Greenville, Woodrow and J. D. Parks of Jackson, Billy and Charles Parks of Memphis; two brothers; two sisters; and 20 grandchildren.

M-D Poster Boy James Halle Dies James N. Halle, 16-yearold son of Mr. and Mrs. James N. Halle, 742 Brandon died at 11:30 a.m.

Monday at the Baptist Hospital. He died unexpectedly although he had been ill for several years. He was a native and lifelong resident of Jackson, having attended Highland Baptist Church. In 1961 and 1962 was poster boy for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. His survivors include his mother and father, who is district sales manager for Rochester Germicide Company of New Orleans, three sisters, Mrs.

Don Ray Boyd, Mrs. H. D. Gilliland, both of Jackson, Exclusive with Nationwidefamily compensationA new idea for a new era of driving security. Allfamily protection against bodily injury and sured drivers.

Pays daily disability and death efits. Ask for Family Compensation. JOE P. WATKINS 268 Segura Avenue Jackson, Miss. Phone 355-2257 ROBERT C.

SANFORD Terry, Miss. Phone 878-5901 JOSEPH "Pat" NOLAN RFD 2, Yazoo City, Miss. Phone 746-2995 JOHN E. BAT 575 Woodward Avenue Jackson, Miss. Phone 366-1735 ROBERT B.

HEMPHILL 2865 Fairhill Drive Jackson, Miss. Phone 372-1688 KENNETH ARNOLD 1257 Wooddell Drive Jackson, Miss. Phone 372-7228 S. J. RANDALL 114 E.

Chickasaw Street Brookhaven, Miss. Phone 833-1921 FRED M. STICKLER District Sales Mgr. Room 584, Milner Bids. Jackson, Miss.

Telephone 948-4681 ATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY Home Office: Columbus, Chie OXFORD Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday in his Oxford home for Dr. John Clifton Culley, who died early Monday morning in the Oxford-Lafayette County Hospital following a lengthy illness. He would have been 81 on Feb. Interment will be in St.

Peter's Cemetery in Oxford with Elliott Funeral Home in charge. Dr. Culley was one of Mississippi's most renowned physicians. He served as president of the Mississippi State Medical Association in 1931-32 and was an emeritus member of that organization. He retained a lively interest in the progress of medicine and in the building of the new hospital here in his later years when he could no longer practice.

Born in Madison, he received the A. B. degree from S. W. Presbyterian University in 1906 and the M.

D. from Vanderbilt in 1909. He interned in the Baroness Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, He served as assistant director of Public Health Sanitation in Mississippi from 1911-12, and established at Columbia, Miss. the first free dispensary for treatment of hookworm diseases. Dr.

Culley served as professor of minor surgery and physical diagnosis at the University of Mississippi from 1914-24. He was superintendent and owner of the Oxford Hospital. He was county health officer for Lafayette county in 1913-14 and served as a captain in the Medical Corps during World War I. In 1922 he married the late Nina Wilson Somerville of Oxford. He was a member of the American College of Surgeons in 1925.

He was a member of the North Medical Society, Mississippi State Medical Association, Southern Medical Association, American Medical Association, Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Alpha Kappa Kappa, and a former president of the Oxford Rotary Club. He was a Mason and a member of the Oxford Presbyterian Church. you Dr. Culley is survived. by a brother, M.

L. Culley of Jackson, and a son, Dr. Thomas S. Culley of the University of Missouri Medical Center in Columbia, Mo. The family has requested that no flowers be sent and for those who wish to make contributions to the Oxford-Lafayette County Hospital Medical Library.

and Miss Elizabeth Ann Halle, student at University of Southern Mississippi; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rainer of Jackson and Belzoni. Funeral services will be held from the Wright and Ferguson Chapel at 1 p.m. Tuesday conducted by Rev.

Keith Hart, Church, with interment in Lakewood Memorial Park. FASHION CENTER you are dressed for any occasion in Supreme Sheer 495 ficiating. Active pallbearers be nephews. Interment will be in Lakewood Memorial Park. Mrs.

J. I. Muirhead Mrs. Donna Muirhead, 74, of 522 Hooker died at 1:30 p. m.

Monday in University Hospital after a brief illness. She was a native of Greenwood and had lived in Jackson for the past 40 years. She was a member of the Methodist church. She is survived by her husband, John I. Muirhead, Jackson; two sons, Tommy Shumate and John B.

Shumate, both of Jackson; one sister, Mrs. Ruby Ray, Greenwood; and five grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted from Baldwin Chapel at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday with Rev. T.

E. Hightower officiating. Interment will be in Lakewood Memorial Park. Mrs. C.

F. Stevens Funeral services for Mrs. Charles F. Stevens, of of 938 Arbor Vista will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. from Wright and Ferguson Chapel, with Rev.

W. Harold Edds, her minister, officiating. She died late Sunday night at Mississippi Baptist Hospital, after a brief illness. Mrs. Stevens, the former Montie Allean Harris, was a native of Middleton, Tenn.

and had lived in Jackson since 1929. She was a member of First Christian Church. Her survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Charles G. Holler and Miss Aneva Stevens, both of Jackson: three granddaughters, Mrs.

Hugh I. Scott Mrs. Charles A. Jackson, and Mrs. James Coggin, all of Jackson; and five great grandchildren.

She is lso survived by three brothers and three sisters. Interment will be in Cedarlawn Cemetery. MRS. RACHEL SMITH GREENWOOD Corley Smith, Last 74, rites of for Carrollton Mrs. Rachel were held Monday from the old Union Christian Church.

Mrs. Smith was a native of Carroll and had been in ill health for sometime prior to her death on Sunday. She is survived by two sons Percy Smith and Williard Smith of Carrollton; one daughter, Mrs. Blanche Simpson, Winona; two brothers and four sisters. GUYLE J.

ROBINSON FULTON Services for Guyle JuSton Robinson, retired farmer of Tremont, will be held Monday afternoon at Asbury Methodist Church. Burial will be at Asbury Cemetery. Robinson, 73, died unexpectedly at his home Sunday morning of a heart his attack. wife; one son, survived by Rex Robinson, of Raymond; three brothers, Sam Robinson, Jacksonville, Ham Robinson, of Tremont, and Lon Robinson, of Zion, three sisters, Mrs. Ottis Chamblee, Mrs.

Maurice Lindele, and Mrs. Helen Keeton, all of Zion, and three grandsons. MRS. TONY CARTER Funeral services for Mrs. Tony Carter, 47, of Madison, were held at Madison on Saturday.

Burial was in Madison. Mrs. Carter, the former Miss Emily Elizabeth Wilson, of Greenwood, died last Wednesday at the Nashville Memorial Hospital after a long illness. She was a member of the Madison Church of Christ and was a teacher in the Sunday School. She leaves her husband, Tony A.

Carter, two sons, Tony and David, one daughter, Anice Carter, all of Madison; her step-father and mother, Mr. and W. H. Kimbrell, of Jackson; a sister, Mrs. Walton Daves, of Greenwood.

NICKOLAS McCORD COLUMBIA Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Colonial FUneral Home for Nickolas McCord. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery. McCord, 64, (an invalid) was found dead HEALTH Do you enjoy healthy, happy days of well being? -INVESTIGATEC. J.

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