Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 13

Tuesday, November 18, TSB6 The CUrion-Udfter 3B 3 warrants issued in slayings at Columbus mobile home park Presented As A Community Service By By JERRY MITCHELL ftetf The car's description reportedly matches Crumpton's car, which has been missing, authorities said. Deputies were summoned the afternoon of Sept. 6 when a neighbor, who noticed an odor coming from the mobile home, peered in a window and saw the victims. Sheriff Louis Harper said then he suspected the person or persons responsible for the killings knew the victims. The warrants, issued Friday, ask for Tinajero's arrest in all three killings.

Authorities, however, have refused to comment on circumstances surrounding the deaths or possible motives. Last week, the sheriff's department received a partial report from the FBI Crime Laboratory. The department had sent the FBI evidence gathered from the mobile home. The county grand jury met last week, but no word has been released on whether there has been an indictment in the case. The grand jury, which adjourned Thursday, has not make public all of its indictments.

1 i "ii i i in inn mi iinirmiinniipiiffr llnrioQ-Lrdger Northrul Mississippi Bureau COLUMBUS Three murder warrants have been issued by the Lowndes County Sheriff's Department for a man in the Sept. 3 slayings of three women in a mobile home here. The sheriff's department continued its search Monday for 25-year-old Moises Alonzo Tinajero, but would not reveal where Tina jero lives. Deputies found the decomposing bodies of Jeanette Parker Sumner, 42; her daughter Gina Crumpton, 18; and a family friend, Kathy Horton, 21, at Sumner's residence at Cantrell's Mobile Home Park on Sept. 6.

Crumpton and Horton apparently lived with Sumner in the mobile home park, one-half mile south of Columbus Air Force Base. The park, containing about 30 homes, is in a wooded area on Mike Parra Road. Authorities said they believe Tinajero is driving a light beige, two-door, 1981 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. Jy vum FREE Official says swamp project too slow EXHIBITS Health Risk Appraisal UMC School of Health Related Profession Breast Self Exam Woman's Hospital and American Cancer Society March of Dimes American Heart association United Cerebral Palsy Mississippi Council For A Tobacco Free State Mississippi Lung Healthchek will be a series of Health fairs where screening services and preventive health care exhibits will be provided for the residents of Jackson and surrounding area free of charge. There will be two (2) events on different dotes at different places.

Mark your calendar and attend the one most convenient to you. Acmrintinn Oi Amhnir Annnumnnt a) AAiccic- sippi Seat Belt Coalition Stress Test Jackson Mental Health Center and Recovery, Inc. Wr7 I 1 Mississippi Foundation for Medical Care University Medical Center Poison Control Center Poison Control Center SCREENINGS DATE AND LOCATION By ALAN HUFFMAN Clarion-Ledger Slaff Writer An official with the state Department of Wildlife Conservation says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is dragging its feet on construction of artificial swamps to replace wildlife habitat destroyed by drainage projects in the Delta. Seth Mott, chief of game for the department, said Monday the corps should hasten efforts to replace vanished wetlands in the lower Yazoo River Delta.

Congress authorized 6,000 acres of so-called "greentree reservoirs" in the late 1970s as mitigation for agricultural clearing that followed corps projects in the lower Delta. The area now crisscrossed with levees, floodgates and channelization projects was prime wildlife habitat when it was subject to flooding from the interior and the Mississippi River. The reservoirs are built by surrounding woodlands with levees and pumping up to 2 feet of water into them. Four will be constructed in the Delta Nation al Forest, with two more being planned in the vicinity. The reservoirs will remain dry except during winter when migratory waterfowl are present.

Corps spokesman Michael Logue said the project has been slowed by negotiations over who will manage operation of the pumps but construction should be completed next year. The levees have been built but the reservoirs will not be operational until the pumps have been installed, he said. Mott said construction is going too slow. "The corps started on the first pump in the fall of '84 and said they were going to do one reservoir a year. But here it is two years after the first one was supposed to be in operation, and they aren't even finished with that one." Mott said the reservoirs, which will be managed by the Department of Wildlife Conservation, are necessary "to maintain the south Delta as prime waterfowl area." Joseph Gex, chairman of the State Commission on Wildlife, has asked the corps for a completion schedule and the Masonic Temple, 1072 Lynch Street mm, mam Body Weight Balance Test South MS Home Health Visual Acuity -UMC School of Nursing Blood Pressure UMC School of Nursing Diabetes Central MS Home Health Care Hearing Loss University Hospital Communicative Disorders lab Dental Screening -Dental Associates Oral Cancer -UMC School of Dentistry Height and Weight Hinds County Health Department Anemia and Blood Groups Typing Mississippi Blood Services Glaucoma Mississippi Optemetric Association and National Society to Prevent Blindness Thursday, November 20, 1986 Registration will be from 9:00 a.m.

until 3 p.m. COUNSELING For More Information Call 353-5442 SERVICES Sta-Home Health Care Agency, Inc. Upjohn Healthcare Services Veteran's Administration Hospital Nursing Services University Medical Center School of Medicine SI million to upgrade Ridgeland fire service IBWAPT Daily News 7 The City of Jackson I 1 I 1 1 l)cCldrion-JcrtBcr nttiVMnvK and yninrsi JL-f 1 BANK By MARY DIXON darns-Ledger Slaff Writer RIDGELAND The City of Ridgeland is about to spend at least $1 million to upgrade its fire protection service to maintain and possibly improve its fire rating, say officials. Alderman Gene McGee said Monday the city board is scheduled to approve the advertising for bids for a new fire truck and approve the preliminary plans for a new fire station at today's 7:30 p.m. meeting.

"We are making progressive moves to do all the things we need to keep our rating or keep it from going up," McGee said. Last week, the city received a letter from the State Rating Bureau warning that the city would have to make improvements to keep its rating from worsening, Fire Chief ry Minninger said Monday. The rating bureau rates fire pro-. tection agencies on a scale of one to 10, with 10 being the worst rating. Ridgeland presently has a seven, said Minninger.

Fire insurance costs are based on the rating. The total proposed upgrading plan includes: doubling manpower by hiring at least 12 new firefighters, bringing the total to 25; building two new fire stations, one on the west side of town at Holmes Junior College and another on the east side on Lake Harbour Drive; buying a new fire truck with a 95-foot ladder. improving water service by conducting valve inspections and marking them on a map; and building a new public safety office near the present fire station on West School Street. McGee said a total cost on each project hasn't been determined, but he estimated it would cost at least 1 million. He said the city probably would finance the upgrading with bonds.

Minninger, who has been fire chief since 1977, said the overhaul of the department is necessary because of continuing commercial growth in the area. FOR SAVINGS date the project will be transferred to the U.S. Forest Service for operation, he said. All the reservoirs lie on forest service land. In a letter, Gex said corps officials had told department officials the project was a high priority in 1982 and, "In the four years since, work on other corps projects continues to destroy waterfowl habitat, while the greentrees remain idle." Congress authorized about 40.000 acres of mitigation in the south Delta this year, but it's not known how much will be reserved in greentree reservoirs.

Logue said the corps determines mitigation by surveying and ranking lands affected by projects and then buying preserves with equal wildlife-supporting capacity. If mitigation lands are less productive wildlife habitat than the lands that were cleared, more land must be bought, he said. The Vicksburg District also operates a greentree reservoir adjacent to Arkabutla Lake in the north Delta. District paid small vendors 81.7 million By HAYES JOHNSON Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer The Jackson Municipal Separate School District has paid about $1.7 million for goods provided by minority vendors since mid-1985, Jackson School Board members were told Monday. The district's efforts to educate minority vendors about the bidding process and a list of recent contracts with minority businesses were outlined in a report submitted to the board by Joe Haynes, deputy superintendent for operations.

"We've done everything humanly possible to make sure we get competitive bids from minority contractors," Haynes said. Minority vendors always have been invited to bid, Haynes said, but the district early last year launched a concerted effort to attract more of the would-be contractors. Seminars were held to educate minority businessmen about the bidding process used in the district and to outline the goods and services in demand. Since that time, contracts have been signed with companies ranging from insurance agencies to a savings bank. Haynes said the district, by law, can-, not give minority vendors preference over others, but contracts are awarded to them if they meet specifications and cast the low bids.

"We've made tremendous gains; we feel good about it," Haynes said. "It's a direction the district has taken because we feel it's right and fair." In other business Monday, the school board approved a loan agreement with the state Educational Finance Commission to pay for replacement of heating systems at three Jackson schools. The money is available for school construction or renovations through the state public school building fund, which is financed by bond sales and managed by the finance commission. The Jackson schools getting new heating systems, and the cost of the systems, are Chastain Junior High School, Morrison Elementary School, and Clausell Elementary School, $180,515.88. The board also accepted the resignation of Lamar Nesbit, assistant superintendent for personnel.

Nesbit, a 16-year veteran of the dis trict, will take over Dec. 1 as executive vice president of Medical and Rehabilitation Services, a new subsidiary of the Methodist Rehabilitation Center. The board appointed John McCarty, assistant superintendent for senior high schools, to serve as interim personnel administrator. Haynes told the board the search for Nesbit's successor should last less than two months. McCarty will not be a candidate.

The school board voted to meet again Dec. 15 at Whitten Junior High School on Daniel Lake Boulevard. invite you to iul Judge lets board retain with the right to comment on suit of the Gulf Coast ed in led to the indictment of Richardson and McCullough. Richardson was acquitted in August 1985 of embezzling county funds. McCullough's trial on similar charges ended in a mistrial in July 1985.

Because the trial will not be held until December and a six-man jury has already been selected, Herring said he believed the supervisors should be barred from making any comment on the suit. The jury was selected last week when Barbour also continued the case because of scheduling problems. He reset the trial for Dec. 1, but again on Monday, he continued it until Dec. 15.

Herring said pretrial publicity might have adverse effects on the case. Herring said a gag order, an unusual circumstance in a civil trial, was needed to prevent the supervisors from making such comments to the media as those made by McCullough on Friday. On Friday, McCullough accused Do-lan Self, the county prosecutor, of having a conflict of interest by being a member of Herring's law firm, which is suing the county. State Sen. Bob Montgomery, a Canton lawyer representing the supervisors, said he fought the gag order attempt because there was no legal By MARY DIXON ClarioD-Ledger Staff Writer A motion to stop three members of the Madison County Board of Supervisors from commenting on a $5 million lawsuit pending against them was denied in U.S.

District Court in Jackson Monday. "The gag order would have been denying me free speech. I was elected up here to speak for the people," said J.L. McCullough of District 5, one of the three supervisors being sued. After a 30-minute closed-door hearing, U.S.

District Judge William H. Barbour denied the motion filed Thursday by Canton lawyer Jim Herring, who is representing former Madison County Administrator Terry Pyron of Madison. Pyron is suing Supervisors David Richardson of District 3, Karl Banks of District 4 and McCullough for allegedly firing him on May 6, 1985. Pyron claims he was fired because of his cooperation with a Sheriff's Department investigation into county finances. The supervisors have denied the allegation, saying Pyron, a white, was prejudiced against blacks and that he was also attempting to politically destroy Richardson, a white.

McCullough and Banks are black. The investigation Pyron participat MONDAY, DEC. 1 7:30 P.M. Jackson City Auditorium The 502nd Air Force Band is proud to present their 1986 version of "Celebrate Christmas songs of every style, both new and old, traditional and sacred, this collection was arranged and will be conducted by Master Sergeant Don Byrd. Such well known songs as "I'll Be Home For "Winter and "Merry Christmas will feature three lovely and talented vocalists.

From the jolly "Santa Claus is Comin' To to the enchanting "Evening in the Spirit of Christmas will fill your hearts. FREE ADMISSION by ticket only NO RESERVED SEATS MAIL COUPON FOR TICKETS Ticket holders mini be in (Heir soots by 7:15 p.m. The general publx will admitted at 7:20 p.m. Tickets available at the business office of The Oarien-Udger, 31! E. Pearl St.

and Unrfkst Bank beginning Nov. 70 fpjease enclose a stamped self-addressed enve- I lope with your request. Mail to: I Air Force Band tco The Clarion-Ledger Limit: I P.O. Box 40 tickets JJackson, MS 39205 Pr request Please send me tickets i Name i Address Phone i St. Zip Request for tickets 00 first come, first served basis.

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