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Sunday, September 5, 1982 The Clarion-Ledger Jackson Daily News DEATHS Harvie Lee Britt CLEVELAND Harvie Lee Britt, 83, died Saturday in the Bolivar County Hospital. Services are 3 p.m. today at the Primitive Baptist Church with burial in the New Cleveland Cemetery. Fletcher Funeral Home is handling arrangements. He was a native of Alva and a retired farmer.

He is survived 1 by his wife, Virginia; sons, Glenn A. Britt of Jerry L. Britt of Mendenhall, and Billy G. Britt of Meridian; sisters, Mavis Britt and Sue Gaither, both of Rosedale; brothers, Earl Britt of Greenville, Alton Britt of Rose, dale, Ellis Britt of Ruleville, Bert Britt of Clarksdale, Cade Britt of Starkville, and O'Neal Britt of Seattle, and five grandchildren. Lemuel Hancock MEADVILLE Lemuel Hancock, 49, died Friday in the University Hospital.

Services are 10 a.m. Monday at Siloam Baptist Church in Meadville with burial in Mount Olive Cemetery. Franklin Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Sir Clifford Curzon, 75; British concert pianist From Wire Service Reports Sir Clifford Curzon, the world-renowned British pianist, died Wednesday in St. Thomas's Hospital in London after a long illness.

He was 75 years old. An immensely popular musical figure in Britain, Sir Clifford had to cancel his last scheduled concert appearances at the London South Bank Summer Music Festival as a result of a lingering blood disease, according to his family. Sir Clifford was knighted in 1977, recognition of a musical lifetime that made him, in the words of a tribute Friday by the music critic of The Daily Telegraph in London, "the leading British pianist of his generation." And as early as 1947, Noel Strauss of The New York Times said that "Curzon must be reckoned among the greatest keyboard artists of the time." Clifford Curzon made his debut in the United States with a recital at Town Hall in New York City on Feb. 26, 1939. The New York Times critic said that the performance established the 31-year-old pianist "an artist of prime importance, a supreme colorist with an impeccable virtuoso One of Sir Clifford's last appearances in the United States was with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy on May 2, 1978.

Sir Clifford's repertory was both broad and eclectic. It included more than 50 concertos and ranged from early classics to contemporary works. While critics may have differed over his uniform command of this vast body of music, they generally agreed that few artists could match him in total performance and in the superbly high level of artistry he offered his listeners. Curzon was born in London on May 18, 1907, the son of Michael Curzon, an antiques dealer, and the former Constance Young. Neither was a musician but both were music lovers and young Clifford began the serious study of the piano when he was 6 years old, after abandoning the violin.

He chose the piano, he said later, "because you can be alone with a piano." The prodigiously talented student went on to train with Britain's leading teachers and later with the world's greatest masters, Arthur Schnabel in Berlin and Wanda Landowska and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He entered the Royal Academy of Music in London at the age of 12 and established himself as a star pupil by winning two scholarships and virtually all the prizes open to pianists. He made his first public appearance in London when he was 16, soon began teaching at the Royal Academy and was a full professor at 19. Curzon suspended his career as a concert artist in 1928 to study with Arthur Schnabel in Berlin. While there, he met Lucille Wallace, a harpsichord student from Chicago.

They were married in Paris in July 1931, and they often played duets and discussed the relative merits of the piano and the harpsichord in recital halls and on BBC programs. Mrs. Curzon died in 1977. Sir Clifford is survived by two adopted sons who were orphaned when their mother, Maria Cebatori, Austria's leading operatic soprano, Vienna in 1949 at the age of 38. Haskell B.

Curry, 81; mathematics specialist Dr. Haskell Brooks Curry, a specialist in applied mathematics and symbolic logic and professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University, died Wednesday at Centre Community Hospital in State College, where he lived. He was 81 years old. Curry joined Penn State's faculty in 1929 and retired in 1966 as the second Evan Pugh research professor, the university's highest honor. Evan Hugh was its first president.

Curry, a native of Millis, won his bachelor and masster of science degrees at Harvard University and a doctorate at the University of Gottingen in Germany. He was a longtime member of the Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences in Brussels and served as vice president of the 70-member association of scholars from 1965 to1969. In World War II, Dr. Curry was a member of the National Teen accidentally shoots schoolmate DALLAS (AP) Police blamed a 13-year-old boy's habit of showing off his mother's pistol for the death of a schoolmate who was shot fatally when the weapon accidentally discharged. Anthony Quinn Harris, also 13, was killed Friday by a single shot to the chest, investigator Howard Johnson said.

Although the cause of Harris' death was under investigation, Johnson said it appeared that the boy was accidentally killed as the youths played with a revolver in the living room of an apartment. Officers were called about 9 a.m. after a neighbor saw a boy dragging Harris' body toward an apartment complex trash bin. The youth told the neighbor he was trying to throw the body away, police said. Police spokesman Bob Shaw said investigators believe the boy panicked after the shooting and tried to dispose of the body.

The boy was held at the Dallas County Juvenile Detention Center. Sgt. Tom Sherman said police will talk to a family district court judge later to decide if the teen-ager should be charged. A friend of both boys, Tony Cooks, 14, said it was not unusual for the gun, kept under a mattress, to be used as a toy. "We went over to his house, and he said, 'Let me show you my mama's gun," Tony said, recalling a recent incident.

"He pulled the hammer out. Then he took the bullets out and started shooting it." The victim's mother, Dorothy Harris, said she was working at Kessler Hospital when she received a phone call from a woman whose voice she did not recognize. "She said, 'Anthony's been shot. He's I just threw the phone down. "I'm trying not to hold no grudges," Mrs.

Harris said. "But that little boy left him in the house just lying there dying." He was a welder and the owner of Hancock Grocery, He is survived by his wife, Carrol Hancock; a son, Larry Hancock of Meadville; his mother, Lucy A. Hancock of Meadville; sisters, Loraine Isrel of Slidell, and Dorothy Moody of Vicksburg; brothers, Moyese Hancock of Morristown, and Carl Hancock of Ferriday, La. Vicky Jean Fleming COLUMBUS Vicky Jean Fleming, 19, died Friday in the University Medical Center. Services are 10 a.m.

Monday at Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Friendship Cemetery. She was a graduate of Caldwell High School and attended Mississippi University for Women. And she was also a 1 member of the Fairview Baptist Church. She is survived by her parents, Thad and Martha Fleming of Columbus; brothers, Thad Cecil, and Steven Fleming, all of Columbus; and her grandmother, Mrs. A.J.

Fleming of Committee on War Preparedness, a top mathematician at the Frankford Arsenal in Philadelphia and the applied physics laboratory at Johns Hopkins University and the chief mathematician at the Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground. His books included "Foundations of Mathematical Logic," a graduate school text used across the nation, and "Combinatory Logic," a key system of formal logic he devised in the 1930's. Survivors include his wife, the former Mary Virginia Wheatley, a son, Robert W. Curry, of Fairport, N.Y., and a daughter, Anne W. Piper, of Miami.

Joseph P. Vaccarella, 80; former New York mayor Joseph P. Vaccarella, former mayor of Mount Vernon, N.Y., died Wednesday at Mount Vernon Hospital. He was 80 years old and lived in Pembroke Pines, Fla. Vaccarella, who had been a prizefighter and boxing referee and had served in the Navy in World War I and as a merchant seaman in World War II, was a longshoreman when he first sought election, unsuccessfully, as an alderman in 1947.

He was elected an alderman in 1949 and was first elected mayor in 1951, the first Democrat to be chosen in 20 years. He was re-elected in 1955 and retired at the end of his term in 1959. He came out of retirement and was elected mayor again in 1963, then was defeated for re election in 1967. He is survived by two brothers, Samuel and Ralph, and three sisters, Carmella, Theresa and Marie, all of Mount Ver- non. Lt.

Gen. John Oakes, 75; former army commander Lt. Gen. John Cogswell Oakes, retired, a former commander of the Seventh Army, died of congestive heart failure Monday at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. He was 75 years old and lived in the capital.

Oakes, a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, was a 1928 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. After World War II, he served with a U.S. military advisory mission in Greece during that country's civil war. He was also secretary to the Army General Staff at the Pentagon. Oakes was commander of the 25th Infantry Division in Korea and later was chief of staff of the Eighth Army there.

He was commanding general of the Seventh Army in West Germany in 1963, when he retired. He is survived by his wife, the former Margaret McKinley, two sons, Col. John Hawley Oakes, of West Point, and James McKinley Oakes of Washington; two daughters, Sue Keith of McLean, and Margaret Cox of Oklahoma City, and seven grandchildren. Richard A. Marchenna, 82; Roman Catholic primate Archbishop Richard Arthur Marchenna, primate of the Old Roman Catholic Church in North America, died Thursday at St.

Dominic's Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., where he had lived for many years. He was 82 years old. The Old Roman Catholic Church stems from an 18th-century theological dispute involving the followers of Bishop Cornelius Jansen of Ypres, in what is now Belgium. They opposed both the Jesuit-dominated intellectualism of the Catholic Church and the Protestant Reformation. Jansenists, including about a dozen bishops and 3,000 French clergymen, were excommunicated.

Church historians say the Old Roman Catholic Church in this country is of indeterminate size and is not in communion with other related bodies. Marchenna was born May 17, 1900, in Newark and attended school there before graduating from St. Francis Seminary in Chicago. He was assigned to the New York metropolitan area and was consecrated a bishop in 1935. He became primate of the church in 1958.

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She was a graduate of Mississippi State College for Women and a retired school teacher. She was the director of the MidMississippi Regional Library and a member of the First Presbyterian Church. She is survived by her sons, George H. Jones of New Orleans, and James V. Jones of Jackson; and a grandson.

Frank Breland PHILADELPHIA Frank Breland, 72, died Friday in the Mississippi Baptist Medical Center. Services are 3 p.m. today at McClain and Hayes Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Cedarlawn Cemetery. He was a member of the Trinity Baptist Church. He is survived by his son, Glenwood Breland of Philadelphia; and two grandchildren.

Gene Scott PEARL Gene Scott, 56, died Friday in Sand Springs, Services are 11 a.m. Monday from Wright and Ferguson Chapel with burial in A native of Chickasha, he was a resident of Pearl for the past 14 years, where he was assistant Water Department supervisor for the City of Pearl. He was a member of the Sunshine Baptist Church and a veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He is survived by his wife, Annie Laura Atkison Scott; a son, David E. Scott of New Orleans, stepchildren, James Alderman of Jackson a and Barbara Michael of Pearl; brothers, Jack Scott of Cordell, Roy Scott of Tuttle, Orville Scott of Euless, Texas, and Harold Scott, of Bridgeport, Texas; Margie Merical and Alice Jones, both of Amber, sisters, Daisie Myers and Wanda Garrett, both of Tuttle, and Mary Shay of Chickasha, and seven grandchildren.

Quitman. Co-author of Ellery Queen novels, Frederic Dannay, dies at age 76 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Frederic Dannay, the co-author of the more than 35 Ellery Queen detective novels, died Friday after a brief illness at White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital. He was 76 years old and had resided in Larchmont, N.Y., since 1947. Dannay's collaborator, his cousin Manfred Lee, died in 1971, and in a very real sense, so did Ellery Queen with the publication of the last Queen novel, A Fine and Private Place.

Since then, Dannay kept busy editing anthologies and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, a monthly publication with a worldwide circulation. Dannay once said that he and Lee, first cousins from Brooklyn, had no idea that their winning entry in a 1928 writing contest for McClure's would be the beginning of a 42-year collaboration that would bring them an international following among readers of all ages. They had hit on a winning formula with their piece, "The Roman Hat Mystery" by Ellery Queen. The name was the same for author and hero so that moviegoers and readers who forgot one might still remember the other. "Everyone had to enter the contest under a pseudonym so that the professionals wouldn't have an advantage," explained one of Dannay's sons, Douglas, in an interview Saturday.

At the time of Lee's death, they had produced enough novels and anthologies of short stories to put their total sales around 100 million copies. There were movie scripts and an Ellery Queen radio series. In 1941 they began publishing the magazine. The books portrayed Queen as an intensely logical, perceptive author with awesome powers of deduction, who aided his father, a New York police inspector, in solving crimes of extraordinary complexity. Ironically, both authors detested violence.

"I've never owned a gun," Dannay said, "have never gone hunting, never shot a gun and never would. I wouldn't know how. To this day, I can't kill At one time in the collaboration, they worked 12-hour days alone in their separate homes in New York and then consolidated their work in a "hideout," a small office near Fifth Avenue unknown even to their wives. "We fight like hell," Dannay said. "We're not so much collaborators as competitors.

It's produced a sharper edge." For many years, their identities were kept secret. Once, in 1932, when Queen was invited to lecture at a college on his craft, Lee arrived wearing a mask and kept it on for department-store autographing sessions. Before their unmasking in the 1930s, the masked Queen made appearances at speaking engagements with another mystery writer, Barnaby Ross, another pseudonym the pair used. Dannay deplored the second-class citizenship accorded writers of detective stories. "In 20 or 30 years," he said, "the literary historians will go back to the good mystery novels to find out what was really going on.

Our books are as much a canvas of their time as the books by Proust were of his Dannay is survived by his wife, the former Rose Koppel; two sons, Douglas, of Merrick, N.Y., and Richard, of Manhattan, and a sister, Ruth Waterman. Apartments were up to standards; fire deaths caused by panic officials L.A. Washington Post Service LOS ANGELES The Dorothy Mae Apartment Hotel had been brought up to fire safety code requirements within the last year, with smoke detector alarms and fire-retardant doors, yet 18 people died in a predawn fire Saturday. Why? Standing outside the charred four-story structure several hours later, officials said, in effect, that people died because it is impossible to legislate against panic. "There wouldn't have been a single death if people had prepared themselves (for a fire emergency) and stayed in their rooms," Mayor Tom Bradley said.

"Panic was the major reason that deaths occurred here." That view was echoed by Los Angeles Fire Department Interim Chief Engineer Allen Evanson. "I look at the building and I see the Ponet doors and most of the fire safety things we require and want," Evanson said, "and it appears to me if the people hadn't panicked, they could have been He pointed out that beyond charred doors leading from burnt -out hallways, most of the small rooms were untouched by flames. "In just about all the rooms you see, there is no fire," he said. "If they had kept their doors closed Evanson said that the fire blocked exit from second- and third-floor rear fire escapes which appeared to be in working condition and that it was in those KRUGERRANDS MAPLE LEAVES BOUGHT-SOLD Gold Silver Wanted Byron W. Cook 355-7331 1717 Deposit Guaranty Bldg.

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