Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 4

Wednesday, December 23, 1959 Clarion Ledger 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 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. Five Injured As Three Cars Smash On Highway GREENVILLE Five persons, were injured, one automobile 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, ald C. Luke, 14, lacerations of the face and arms; Virgil C. Luke, 16, another brother, lacerations; and a cousin, Kermit 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 1 head lacerations. Bobby E. Mitchell, 18, of Shaw.

driver of the third car, was not taken to the hospital for treatment. Other occupants of the car were J. D. Coleman, 27, and James H. McDonald, 33, of Shaw.

Lester Luke was driving a 1939 Chevrolet west into Greenville and was struck from the rear by C. M. Griffin's 1958 Plymouth, also enroute west, Highway Patrolman Clarence Jenkins of Leland said. the impact the Luke ChevroJoIn gas tank exploded and burst into flames, the patrolman said. Mitchell and two companions, who had just gotten off work at Greenville Mills and were enroute east towards their home at Shaw, made an unsuccessful attempt to dodge the Luke Chevrolet which was knocked into the path of 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 condition at the hospital today. He was taken to the hospital in an automobile. Patrolman Jenkins said charges had been placed in nection with the collision of the three cars.

The Luke car was destroyed. Jenkins said he planned to talk with Griffin and charges are pending. Former State Man Dies In Alabama Wreck FOREST Funeral services were held at Gabbettville, Alabama for Garland Hodges, 51, former Scott countian who was lision on Highway 29 near Lanett, fatally injured in a two-car a colAlabama. Hodges was driving alone in his Chevrolet when the impact occurred. The other car was a 1959 Pontiac driven by Herbert Miles and occupied by two other persons, all of whom were injured.

Formerly of Morton, Hodges had lived in Alabama for the past 20 years. He was a member of the Long Cane Methodist church. Burial was in West Point cemetery after rites at the Johnson and Blakely Funeral Chapel. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Karrie Heggood Hodges, and one son, George, of Baggettbille; three sisters, Mrs.

Jack Comfort, Hattiesburg; Mrs. George Lack, Forest; Mrs. Fred Whitehurst, Memphis; four brothers, Kelly Hodges and Lonnie Hodges, Forest; Robert Hodges, Magee; and Ray odges, Natchez; and his mother, Mrs. Ola Hodges, of Forest. Thieves Take Pistol MERIDIAN William Barber, of Butler, reported to police that someone stole a .32 pistol worth about $45 from his car while it was parked in front of the Davis Grill.

Also missing from the auto are a leather holster, a screw driver, a crescent wrench and a pair of pliers. Looks Like Rain For Today RIVER BULLETIN Stations Flood Present 24-hour Stages in Ft. stage stage change MISSISSIPPI St. Louis 30 3.1 0.4 Rise Memphis 34 19.3 1.3 Rise Helena 44 24.9 1.1 Rise Arkansas City 42 18.8 1.3 Rise Vicksburg 43 18.3 1.1 Rise Natchez 48 24.1 0.2 Rise Red River Lndg 45 s22.6 0.9 Rise Baton Rouge 35 15.5 Donaldsonville 28 s9.8 0.3 Rise New Orleans 17 4.9 0.2 Rise QUACHITA Camden 26 32.0 1.1 Rise Monroe 40 17.8 0.4 Rise BLACK Jonesville 50 OHIO Pittsburgh 25 p16.6 0.1 Rise Cincinnati 52 $30.8 2.5 Fall Cairo 40 34.3 1.2 Rise ARKANSAS Little Rock 23 12.2 1.0 Rise RED Shreveport 30 19.1 0.3 Fall Alexandria 32 $20.9 2.7 Rise PEARL Jackson 18 19.4 2.6 Fall S-Stage yesterday morning; P. Pool stage.

WEATHER BUREAU Jackson, Mississippi Date Dec. 23, 1959 Sunset Wed. 5:01 p.m. Sunrise Thurs. 7:00 a.m.

Midnight 6a.m. 12meon 6p.m. Temperature 35 37 57 51 Dewpoint 30 33 33 37 Relative Humidity Wind Direction, Velocity Calm E22 SEA E2 Sea Level Barometer 30.31 30.30 30.28 30.22 WEDNESDAY FORECASTS Jackson Vicinity: Cloudy, occasional 56. light rain, turning colder. low 46, high Thursday: Partly cloudy, becoming fair and cold, low 30, high 48.

light Mississippi: rain in west Mostly and cloudy, northwest occasional tions. TEMPERATURES RAINFALL High Low 'Rain Atlanta 49 Birmingham 33 Boston .03 Chicago Denver Detroit I JACKSON Little Rock Los Memphis Angeles Miami Minneapolis Montgomery New York Orleans Oklahoma City Phoenix, Ariz. St. Louis San Antonio Shreveport 59 Washington 33 Nation's coldest Caribou, Me. below, Nation's hottest spot: Miami, Fla.

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CAPITOL ST. LAT RED BORDER Jackson Man Keeps Lonely Yukon Vigil By JERRY DeLAUGHTER Clarion Ledger Feature Writer A Jacksonian may be among the first to spot Santa Claus when that ageless gent starts. southward from the Pole sometime Thursday night. On radar, too. Bob Rose, whose temporary Campion, Alaska, is tioned is, 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, sits a few miles from downtown Galena. See? The staff at Campion totals about 150, which more than doubles the metropolitan Galena area's population, Galena's citizenry amounts to about 125 Indians of undetermined origin (not Eskimos).

Campion is one of more than dozen radar and one of the northernmost points. Cold? According to Bob, the temperature when he left last week to come home for Christmas was 40 below. That mark will cool off a bit and reach 60 below before the long, dark winter is followed by spring. On Tuesday this week, when we the Far North, Bob's colleagues at Campion were enshortest day of the day saw the sun roll the southern hills for about an hour and a half before disappearing. Summer compensates for the winter's loss.

In fact, the day Bob got to Campion (last July first) had been going on since the middle of June and kept on being day until sometime in August. Sergeant Rose, a fifteen year veteran of the service version of life, doesn't mind the job, being it lasts only year. 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." BACK TO KEESLER Bob will be reassigned next July, "probably to Keesler," where he has been an instructor in electronics and radar before. He will "retire" (this kills me) at age 38 from a twenty-year career, having joined the service following his mid-term graduation from Forest Hill in 1945.

Rose married a Jackson girl, the former have two Norma "and Downing. fraction' They now a children. Virginia is nine, Diane 7. (Their Christmas greetings read "from four and a half Roses." (Apologies, of course, to Schenley's.) The family waits for him at their home at 5537 Queen Elizabeth. Bob's career so far has been in instruction, after lively introduction to the life through a navy tin can at the tail end of War 2.

He joined the Air Force in '47. Life at the dew line, he says, isn't too dull, in spite of the fact that Fairbanks is 250 miles away. "There are all kinds of sports, like skiing, bobsledding, hunting and Bob "'We have movie every he told me. "They're flown in from Anchorage, and usually pretty recent stuff." In addition, the USO entertains once month, which gives the lonely vigil its sole look at white girl. "'The village holds a weekly get-together for the base," Bob added, "but it's not much." MORALE GOOD The morale, he said, is among the best in that segment of the service.

You can't expect Our Boys to be full of spirit at an outpost like that, but apparently things aren't quite so bad. Officers and NOO's are the big reason for it, Bob explained. we compete in softball with the other sites during the he said. "There are outboards and boats on the site," he said, "so, being right on the Yukon, the men get in a lot of fishing. And there are lots of moose around to hunt." (I thought the plural was The work itself, while not strenuous, is regular.

"'We're keeping an eye on the Arctic area, Russian aircraft," he told me. "We have them on our screen quite bit. They fly up and down the International Date Line. We've got to be sure they don't cross it." The men at Campion maintain twenty-four hour, seven day week watch of the northwest frontier. They work in eight-hour shifts.

Alaska, as sixth-graders know, is only a handful of miles from USSR, so it puts the US and Russia a stone's throw apart. People like M-Sgt. Rose are there to make sure the stone isn't thrown. Rites Wednesday For Jones Infant Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday from the graveside in Babyland at Lakewood 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. a Rev. J. C.

Renfroe, pastor of Crestwood Baptist Church will with Baldwin funeral home a in charge. a 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 Meadville; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Gus Anderson of Birmingham, and maternal grandfather, James L. Eubanks of Fairfield, Ala. Weir Soldier Dies In France, Family Returns LOUISVILLE-Mrs. Francis Shelby Gilbert, and her three sons, who were living in Angelonius, France, have returned to their home in Weir to await the arrival of the body of Mr.

Gilbert. Gilbert, who was with the Army in France, died Saturday, Dec. 12. His body will leave Paris on December 23, being sent to Dover, Delaware, and thence to the Mangum Funeral Home 1 in Louisville. His wife and children arrived by air in New Orleans Dec.

17 and went directly to Weir. 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 France since June 1957 and lacked less than a year before reaching retirement status. He was a native of Neshoba county and was educated in the public schools of McCool. He entered service in September 1940 and first served three years in the Medical Corps in Australia.

Since then he has been stationed at Temple, Texas, Anchorage Alaska, El Paso, Texas, Fort Belvoir, and in France. For five years he was out of service from 1945 to 1950 at which time he lived at McCool. He was a member of the McCool Baptist Church and taught a sunday School class there the five years he was home from service. He also taught Sunday School Epidemic On Wane BERGEN, Norway (AP) The scarlet fever epidemic to hit this city of about 110,000 during century is on the wane, officials report. A total of 1,700 cases were reported with 1,500 in the last two months.

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Middleton Rites Set For Today Benjamin Franklin Middleton, 59, of 216 Robinhood Road, died in the Baptist Hospital at 10:15 a.m., Tuesday morning after a brief illness. Middleton was born and reared in Yazoo county where he served as county superintendent of education for two terms. He moved to Jackson 11 years ago and has been executive secretary of the Mississippi State Textbook and Purchasing Board. Middleton was a member of the Galloway Memorial Methodist Church and a veteran of World War I. He was a Mason and member of the Wahabi Shrine Temple.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Memorial Wednesday Methodist from the loway Church with the Rev. W. B. Selah officiating, assisted by Rev. J.

H. Morrow Jr. and Rev. Jerry Furr. Remains will rest in Baldwin Funeral Home and be moved to the church to lie in state from 1:00 p.m., to the service hour Wednesday.

Interment will follow in Glenwood cemetery in Yazoo City. Middleton is survived by his wife, Mrs. Katherine Guion Middleton of Jackson, one sister, Mrs. M. H.

Brooks of Jackson and several nieces and nephews. Active pallbearers, all nephews, include: James C. McCollum, Jimmy Cook, Walter V. McLellan, Robert W. Pittman, Albert Leon Gerrard Jr.

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