Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 4

AT RED BORDER CftC WfdnMday, December 3939 4 Middleton Rites Set Rites Wednesday For Jones Infant Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday from the grave 2nd MORTGAG Jackson Man Keeps Lonely Yukon Vigil side in Babyland at Lakewood For Today The work itself, while not stren Benjamin Franklin Middleton, REAL ESTATE LOANS 36 MONTHS WHITE SYSTEM OF JACKSON, Inc. 59, of 216 Robinhood Road, died uous, is regular. "Were keeping Memorial park for Richard Lamar Jones, infant son of Mr. and Mrs.

Webb Jones, of 1605 Wood street, who died at the Baptist Hospital Tuesday. Rev. J. C. Renfroe, pastor of By JERRY DeLAUGHTER Clarion Ledger Feature Writer A Jacksonian may be among the first to spot Santa Claus when that aaeless sent starts southward an eye on the Arctic area, tracking Russian aircraft," he told me.

"We in the Baptist Hospital at 10:15 a.m., Tuesday morning after a brief illness. have them on our screen quite a 1 g'j j( FL 4-3724 126 So. West St. Electric Eldg. Middleton was born and reared from the Pole sometime Thurs Crestwood Baptist Church wiU of bit.

They fly up and down tbe International Date line. We've got to be sure they don't cross it." in Yazoo county where he served aj county superintendent of educa The men at Campion maintain a tion for two terms. He moved to Jackson 11 years ago and has been executive secretary of the twenty-four hour, seven day a week watch of the northwest fron tier. They work in eight-hour shifts. Mississippi State Textbook and Purchasing Board.

ficiate with Baldwin funeral borne in charge. In addition to the parents, the infant is survived by one sister, Debra Louise, one brother, Freddie Lyn; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S. J.

Jones of Mead-ville; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Gus Anderson of Birmingham, and maternal grandfather, James L. Eitbanks of Fairfield, Ala. Alaska, as sixth-graders know, day night. On radar, too.

Bob Rose, whose temporary home is Campion, Alaska, is stationed at that remote post for the purpose of keeping an alert eye on goings-on in the literal cold-war edge, the Arctic north. Rose, a master sergeant In the U. S. Air Force, is radar maintenance chief at Campion Air Force Base on the Yukon in the country's forty-ninth state. Campion, in case you don't know where it is, Middleton was a member of the is only a handful of miles from USSR, so it puts the US and Rus Galloway Memorial Methodist Church and a veteran of World sia a stone's throw apart.

People War I. He was a Mason and member of the Wahabi Shrine Temple. Uke M-Sgt. Rose are there to make sure the stone isn't thrown. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Wednesday from the Gal loway Memorial Methodist Church sits a few miles from downtown Galena.

See? with the Rev. W. B. Selah officiat ing, assisted by Rev. J.

H. Morrow The staff at Campion totals about Weir Soldier Dies In France, Family Returns Jr. and Rev. Jerry Furr. 150, which more than doubles the Remains will rest in Baldwin metropolitan Galena area's popu ation.

Galena citizenry amounts Funeral Home and be moved to the church to lie in state from to about 125 Indians of undeter mined origin (not Eskimos). the various army posts where he LOUISVILLE Mrs. Francis 1:00 p.m., to the service hour Wed served. Campion is one of more than a FADE MJE Bathroom Heaters ea. $4.13 Room Heaters, Asbestos Back, ea.

$8.61 Heater Connectors Heater Valves Pipe Fittings New Pipe Garbage Cans Cocoa Mats Steel Sinks Steel Lavatories New Commodes Commode Seats (All Prices Plus Tox) WANTED TO BUY SCRAP IRON SCRAP METALS -AUTO RADIATORS AND BATTERIES WE ALSO BUY SCRAP PAPER NATIONAL HIDE FUR CO. Box 166, Jackson, Miss. Phone FL 2-5148 Opposits Fairgrounds "Merchants of East Pearl Street" nesday. Interment will follow in Glerrwood cemetery in Yazoo City. On July 7, 1945 he married dozen radar posts in Alaska, ana Middleton is survived by his Miss Betty Smith of McCool.

They one of the northernmost points Shelby Gilbert, and her three sons, who were living in Angelon-ius, France, have returned to their home in Weir to await the arrival of the body of Mr. Gilbert. wife, Mrs. Katherine Guion Mid have three sons, Tommy Michael SANTA ARRIVES EARLY Santa Claus arrived early for Hinds Junior College president G. M.

McLendon. The Hinds Hi-Steppers and Mrs. Alon Bee, Hi-Stepper director, present president McLendon with a Barca Lounger at the annual Hi-Stepper Christmas party. The dainty Santa Claus making the presentation is Sue Bell, Hi-Stepper from Forest Hill. Mrs.

McLendon, left, and Mrs. Bee watch the ceremony. Gilbert 11, Donald Claud Gilbert 8, and Shelby Gilbert, Jr. 3. He Cold? According to Bob, the temperature when he left last week to come home for Christmas was 40 below.

That mark will cool off dleton of Jackson, one sister, Mrs. M. H. Brooks of Jackson and several nieces and nephews. Gilbert, who was with the Army also leaves two brothers, Russell Active pallbearers, all nephews, Gilbert of French Cam and J.

D. a bit and reach 60 below before the include: James C. McCollum, Jim in France, died Saturday. Dec. 12.

His body will leave Paris on Gilbert of Pine Bluff, eizht ong, dark winter is followed by my cook, waiter v. MCLiiati, sisters, Mrs. Elmer Lee Hunt of Five Injured As Three December 23, being sent to Dover, spring. Starkville, Mrs. Pauline Cook of Robert W.

Pittman, Albert Leon Gerrard Jr. and the Rev. Henry On Tuesday this week, when we Delaware, and thence to the Man-gum Funeral Home in Louisville. Weir, Mrs. Irene Simon of Frank talked about the Far North, Bob's G.

Winstead. lin, Mrs. Agnes Andrews of Honorary pallbearers will be His wife and children arrived by air in New Orleans Dec. 17 and Cars Smash On Highway colleagues at Campion were enjoying the shortest day of the West Point, Mrs. Grace Hodnett, Mrs.

Shaffer and Mrs. Be went directly to Weir. year. That day saw the sun roll atrice Gluff of Indianapolis. Indi charges had been placed in con GREENVILLE Five persons around the southern hills for about an hour and a half before disap ana, and Miss Shirley Gilbert of nection with the collision of the members of the Department of Education of the State of Mississippi, members of the Professional Bookman'a Association, Stewards of Galloway Memorial Methodist Church and members of the Mississippi Textbook and Purchasing Kosciusko.

pearing. three cars. The Luke car was des Gilbert who was 46 died of cerebral thrombosis after an illness of nine days. He had been stationed as a medic in the laboratory of the 28th General Hospital in Mangum Funeral Home will be troyed. Jenkins said he planned to Summer compensates for the winter's loss.

In fact, the day Bob charge of services. Arrange talk with Griffin and charges are ments incomplete. got to Campion (last July first) Board. France since June 1957 and lack pending. ed less than a year before reach had been going on since the middle of June and kept on being day un ing retirement status.

He was a native of Neshoba county and was educated in the Former State Man Dies In Alabama Wreck public schools of McCool. He entered service In September 1940 til sometime in August. Sergeant Rose, a fifteen year veteran of the service version of life, doesn't mind the job, being it lasts only a year. "A man can stand on his head a year," he says. "It's just a little of the bad you have to take with all the good in the Air Force." were injured, one automomie burned, two other automobiles were badly damaged in a 3-car collision on highway 82 east, near Greenville, about 11:15 last night.

The injured: Lester Luke, 20, of 508 Union Street, driver of one of the cars, broken left leg; his brother, Gerald C. Luke, 14, lacerations of the face and arms; Virgil C. Luke, 16, another brother, lacerations; and a cousin, Kcrmit Kuke, 18, Route 1, Greenville, a sailor in the U. S. Navy, taken to Greenville Air Force Base hospital.

C. M. Griffin, 21, of Chattahoochee, driver of a second car, suffered multiple head lacerations. Bcoby E. Mitchell, 18, of Shaw, driver of the third car, was not taken to the hospital for treatment.

Other occupants of the car and first served three years in the Medical Corps in Australia. Since FOREST Funeral services then he has been stationed at were neid at uabbettviiie, Aia bama for Garland Hodges, 51 Temple, Texas, Anchorage Alas ka, El Paso, Texas, Fort Belvoir former Scott countian who was BACK TO KEESLER and in France. For five years he OPEN TONIGHT DOWNTOWN MEADOWBROOK WESTLAND PLAZA Bob will be reassigned next July, fatally injured in a two-car collision on Highway 29 near Lanett, Alabama. 'probably to Keesler," where he was out of service from 1945 to 1950 at which time he lived at has been an instructor in electronics and radar before. He will McCool.

Hodges was driving alone in his He was a member of the McCool 1957 Chevrolet when the impact 'retire" (this kills me) at age 38 occurred. The other car was a Baptist Church and taught a sun- from a twenty-year career, having joined the service following day School class there the five 1959 Pontiac driven by Herbert Miles and occupied by two other persons, all of whom were in years he was home from service his mid-term graduation from For were J. D. Coleman, 27, and est Hill in 1945. He also taught Sunday School at James H.

McDonald, 33, of Shaw jured. Rose married a Jackson girl, Formerly of Morton, Hodges Epidemic On "Wane the former Norma Downing. They now have two "and a fraction" Lester Luke was driving a 1939 Chevrolet west into Greenville and was struck from the rear by BERGEN, Norway (AP)-The children. Virginia is nine, Diane had lived in Alabama for the past 20 years. He was a member of the Long Cane Methodist church.

worst scarlet fever epidemic to (Their Christmas greetings C. M. Griffin's 1958 Plymouth, al so enroute west, Highway Patrol hit this city of about 110,000 dur Burial was in West Point ceme man Clarence Jenkins of Leland read "from four and a half Roses." (Apologies, of course, to ing this century is on the wane tery after rites at the Johnson and said. Here's your chance to wrap up Christmas at big sayings! Come shop McRae's officials report. A total of 1,700 Schenley's.) The family waits for him at their home at 5537 Queen In the impact the Luke Chevro Blakely Funeral ChapeL Survivors include his wife, Mrs.

cases were reported with 1,500 in let gas tank exploded and burst Elizabeth. the last two months. into flames, the patrolman said. Karrie Heggood Hodges, and one son, George, of Baggettbille; three Bob's career so far has been Mitchell and two companions, in instruction, after a lively in sisters, Mrs. Jack Comfort, Hat- who had just gotten off work at troduction to the life through tiesburg; Mrs.

George Lack, For est; Mrs. Fred Whitehurst, Mem navy un can at the tail-end of War 1 He joined the Air Force Greenville Mills and were enroute east towards their home at Shaw, made an unsuccessful attempt to dodge the Luke Chevrolet which phis; four brothers, Kelly Hodges in '47. and Lonnie Hodges, Forest; Robert Hodges, Magee; and Ray od- Life at the dew line, he says, was knocked into the path of ges, Natchez; and his mother, Mrs Isn't too dull, in spite of the fact that Fairbanks is 250 miles away. Ola Hodges, of Forest. "There are all kinds of sports, like skiing, bobsledding, hunting Thieves Take Pistol MIL IE MERIDIAN William Barber Mitchell's 1950 Ford.

Ambulances of National Funeral home and wWells Funeral Home took four of the injured persons to General Hospital. Cecil Luke was admitted to the hospital, Lester Luke's broken leg was placed in a cast, Virgil Luke was treated and dismissed. Griffin was reported in fair condi A of Butler, reported to police and fishing," Bob says. "We have a movie every night." he told me. "They're flown in from Anchorage, and usually pretty recent stuff." that someone stole a .32 pistol worth about $45 from his car 77 while it was parked in front of the In addition, the USO entertains Dans Grill.

(OIF tion at the hospital today. He was once a month, which gives the Also missing from the auto are taken to the hospital in an lonely vigil its sole look at a white a leather holster, a screw driver, POCKET KNIVES girl. 'The village bokU a weekly a crescent wrench and a pair of ratroiman Jenkins said no get-together for the base," Bob pliers. added, "but it's not much.1 MORALE GOOD Looks Like Rain For Today The morale, he said, is among the best in that segment of the service. You can't expect Our Boys WSATHKB BPRF.AU JarkMa.

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