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Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 6

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Che Clarion Ledger Tuesday, April 9, 1963 COLUMBUS VII PARADE'S YOUNG COLUMBUS VII winners including two Mississippians were welcomend by country-folk singer Jimmy Dean in New York on the first lap of their ten day SwitzerlandGermany Adventure. The 83 young news salesmen heard Jimmy sing his hit song "Big Bad John" and received some homespun advice from the singer: "You're going to a foreign country for your city, for your paper and for Parade Magazine. Don't steal any hub caps! You've done a wonderful job to become a Young Columbus VII and I think you're a fine lot of men." to Jimmy Dean; Robert Traugott, Indianapolis, Jim McCuller, Jackson, Miss. and Roger Clemons, Senatobia, Miss. Last Swiss Day Long, Full For State Columbus Winners BERNE, Switzerland, Jim McCuller of Jackson and Roger Clemons of Senatobia, from the Clarion-Ledger Young Columbus winners, received an early call at Berne's Hotel Bellevue this morning so they could make their last full day in Switzerland as long and complete as possible.

During the stay in Switzerland the boys again and again asked how the holes get into the Swiss cheese. Cheese factories, of which Switzerland has over 2,000, make only one cheese per day and in order to witness this century-old process the boys had to be at the cheese hut by 9 a.m. A typical Bernese luncheon was arranged by the Switzerland Mrs. Hart, 91, Dies In Canton CANTON Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 8 for Mrs. Mary Louise Hart, 91, one of Canton's oldest citizens.

She died at her home on East Academy Street Monday morning after a long illness. She was a native of Manchester, New Hampshire, but had made her home in canton for the past 85 years. She was the widow of J. J. Hart who was a prominent planter west of Canton.

She was member of the First Methodist Church of Canton. Her son, Foster Prichard Hart, preceded her in death four days ago at his home in Greenville. Services will be conducted from the chapel of the Baldwyn Funeral Home in Canton with her pastor, the Rev. Eual Samples officiating. Burial will follow at the Canton Cemetery.

She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Elise H. Beavers, of Canton, Mrs. J. S.

Clark of Madison, Mrs. Joseph H. Melton of Canton and Mrs. Dora V. Hart of Jackson; one daughter, Louis H.

Goodhue of Mt. Vernon Washington; five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Yazoo Negro Held In Louisiana BATON ROUGE, (P A Yazoo City, Negro is being held in the parish jail here as a fugitive from justice for Mississippi authorities. David Lee Weathers, 33, Yazoo City, was picked up by city detectives Sunday night. Police said he escaped the Yazoo county jail while serving a one-year term for theft.

Weathers, who first denied his identity, later waived extradition to Mississippi. Cheese Association featuring their products rather prominently. A welcome serenade was given to American newspaperboys by local farmers dressed in native costumes. They rang cow bells, did some yodeling and alphorn blowing, all to the enjoyment of the Young Columbus group. The afternoon was devoted to shopping and a visit to the Tobler factory, makers of the world famous Swiss chocolate.

Samples were liberally distributed, and the entire group agreed it was the nest candy they had ever tasted. Dinner was enjoyed at the Hotel Bellevue Palace. Waterways Group Adopts Program COLUMBUS (A) The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway authority adopted today a 20-point program for work during the coming year dedicated to advancement for the authority. The group decided to coordinate efforts of four State Congressional delegations in pushing for Federal action in the proposed waterway which would connect the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers. Gov.

Ross Barnett, chairman of the authority, said the next meeting would be held in July at an undetermined spot in Kentucky. Barnett said the scheduled public meeting to discuss the project will be held in Washington with meetings between congressmen from Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky. The group set as a goal the cooperation between the authority and congressional delegations for keeping state and national authorities informed on waterway development. Barnett told the 20 to 25 members at the meeting Monday 7 of 10 Mississippi counties involved in the project have agreed to participate. BACKACHE MISERIES De Witt's Pills, with positive analgesic action, bring fast palliative relief of symptomatic pains in back, joints and muscles.

De Witt's Pills are mildly diuretic and help flush out unwanted wastes left by sluggish kidneys. De Witt's Pills may be just what you need to relieve backache miseries and help you avoid getting up nights. De Witt's Pills FLY AIR COACH SAVE Cheaper than driving your TTA BY CAR SAVE Houston $2380 $5787 $3407 Arthur $1840 $4550 $2710 Lake Charles $1520 $3963 $2443 PLUS TAX For information and confirmed reservations, call PL 4-3591 or your TTA Travel Agent Te more than 50 Southwest cities, TTA DC-3 Starliners save you 20 of 12.54 wayl costs taken from Internal Revenue Service allowance a mile, including fuel, maintenance, (And look at the hours and meals you saveh depreciation, interest. La Southwest Serving the Region Great BEST I airways Services Held Here Monday For Mrs. Napier Mrs.

John Hawkins Napier, III, wife of Major Napier, of Maxwill Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama, and of Picayune, Mississippi, died Saturday evening at St. Dominics' Hospital where she had been a patient for about ten days. Mrs. Napier, the former Harriet Elizabeth McGehee, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Burgess McGehee, of Jackson. She was born on September 19, 1929, and spent her childhood years in Greenville and McComb, Mississippi. She was graduated from the McComb High School and attended Belhaven College and the University of Mississippi. Following their marriage on August 30, 1950, Mrs. Napier and her husband were stationed at several air force bases in the United States and in Germany.

Mrs. Napier was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church in Montgomery, Mrs. Napier was the niece of Mrs. Massena Culley, Mrs.

Donnald Morse, Mrs. W. Harris Virden, Mrs. Ethel M. Landry, and Mrs.

E. H. Galloway of Jackson, and of Mrs. Stella M. Landis of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

They, as well as a number of cousins, survive her. Funeral services were held at two o'clock on Monday afternoon at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, where Major and Mrs. Napier were married. The Reverend Christoph Keller, Rector, conducted the service.

Interment was in Greenwood Cemetery. Pallbearers were: Mr. Samuel V. Morse, Mr. Samuel E.

Virden, Mr. William Harry Hutchins, Judge Russel D. Moore, III, Mr. Howard M. Moore, Mr.

Chas. G. Ventress, Prof. Chas. B.

Galloway, and Dr. Wilfred Q. Cole, all of Jackson; and Mr. Johny S. Taylor, Clinton, and Mr.

Espy Loe, of Picayune. TRACTOR PUT RADIO STATION OFF THE AIR CANTON (UPI) A tractor plowed radio station WDOB off the air Monday afternoon. The tractor snapped main line running from the station to its tower. WDOB Engineer Pay Kelley said he yelled at the Negro tractor driver just in time to prevent him from picking up the broken line. He said the driver thought the line was a root.

WEATHER CooL 8000 FORECAST I Daytime Tuesday Shew High Temperatures Expected FORECAST-Scattered showers are expected on Tuesday in the Pacific northwest while more general rain is due over the northern and central Rockies, Great Plains and the Mississippi valley. Scattered snow showers will occur in Rockies' higher elevations. It will be relatively cool over most of the precipitation belt as well as in the northeast. Fair skies and mild warm air is expected to continue over much of the south while hot weather is slated for the extreme southern Wirephoto Map. Pretty Days Continue U.S.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE WEATHER BUREAU Jackson, Mississippi Climatological Data April 8 Sunset Tuesday 6:26 p.m. Wednesday 5:38 a.m. RIVER STAGES Flood Present 24-hour stage stage change Sunrise Stations: MISSISSIPPI St. Louis 30 11.0 0.7 Fall Memphis 34 32.7 0.9 Fall Helena 44 41.1 0.5 Fall Arkansas City 44 34.2 0.2 Fall Vicksburg 43 37.6 0.0 Vicksburg 48 43.0 0.2 Rise Red Rvr Ldng 45 r39.8 0.1 Rise Baton Rouge 35 30.1 0.1 Fall Donaldsonville 28 23.3 0.0 New Orleans 17 13.0 0.1 Rise ATCHAFALAYA Simmesport 41 35.8 0.1 Rise Melville 34.6 0.0 Atchafalaya 29 Morgan City 7 5.8 0.3 Rise QUACHITA Camden 26 9.0 2.6 Rise Monroe 40 15.4 0.4 Fall BLACK Jonesville 50 r41.8 0.2 Rise Cincinnati 52 29.4 1.6 Fall Cairo 40 40.9 1.9 Fall ARKANSAS Little Rock 23 1.4 0.4 Fall RED Shreveport 30 8.4 0.0 Alexandria 32 5.8 0.1 Fall PEARL Jackson 18 4.8 0.0 r-Stage day before yesterday. z-Pool stage.

ing at the Grenada Hospital following a long illness. She was 67, and a Baptist. She is survived by six sons, J. E. Nail, Ford Nail, Grenada; Harold Nail, Duck Hill; the Rev.

Homer B. Nail, Oil City, K. W. Nail, Greenwood; Dr. Henry Ray Nail, Whitfield; four daughters, Mrs.

H. C. Bennett, Chicago; Mrs. L. G.

Neely, Holcomb; Mrs. H. C. Taylor, Harvey, Mrs. C.

E. Hemphill, Jackson; 37 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. HATTIESBURG-Ruby Magee 22-year-old Negro graduate student at Harvard University, testified in U.S. District Court here Monday that she flunked a voter application test in Walthall county. She was later told by Will Wells, an assistant state attorney general, that she passed the test and that all she needs to do to complete her registration is "go by the circuit clerk's office at Tylertown." Wells explained the woman's application was originally turned down because of a mixup regarding her age.

County records indicated she was only 20 when she sought to register but a birth certificate proved otherwise, he said. She was the first of a long string of government witnesses to testify on the opening day of hearing conducted by Judge Harold Cox into charges of voter discrimination against Negroes Clerk by John W. Wood. Walthall 1 county circuit Other witnesses included Negroes who said Wood flunked them and several white persons who testified they were able to vote even though they could neither read nor write. These latter witnesses were registered, however, before Wood took office in 1961, succeeding the labe J.

M. Byrd. Harvard Negro Testifies In Voting Trial Louin Man Is Killed By Train LOUIN-Eddie Welborn, about 40, was killed instantly Monday when struck by a Gulf Mobile and Ohio freight train just south of Louin. Welborn was said to be walking along the tracks en route to fish in a nearby pond. The name of the engineer was not available.

Residents said the train crew had to walk into Louin to report the accident. Wilborn is survived by his widow and two children. A official from Meridian was in Louin Monday afternoon investigating. The body is at Memory Chapel in Bay Springs. SPECIAL OFFER Do-It-Yourself 2 Loads of $2.00 Drycleaning STAR CENTER SUNSHINE Cor.

Bailey Ave. Peach Orch. midnight 6 a.m. 12 noon 6 p.m. Temperature ..51 47 75 75 Dewpoint 49 47 54 54 Relative Humidity Wind Direction And Velocity Calm Calm SSW7 SSW8 Sea Level Baromter 29.84 29.86 29.83 29.71 Temperature 80 Today Year 77 Ago 88 IN Record 1903 Lowest 46 46 34 IN 1898 Precipitation last 24 hours: None Pearl River at Jackson at 5 p.m.: 4.8 feet.

No change. Tuesday, April.9 Forecasts Jackson and Vicinity: Clear to partly cloudy through Tuesday night. Low 48 with high of 83. Winds 5-15 mph. North Mississippi: Clear to partly with no change through Tuesday cloudy Low 48-55, high Tuesday 80-85.

South Mississippi: Clear to partly cloudy and mild through Tuesday night. Lowest temperature 48-56, with high in 74-84. TEMPERATURES RAINFALL high low rain Atlanta 75 47 Birmingham 80 45 53 36 Buffalo, N. Y. 46 22 N.

C. .74 39 Charlotte, 48 40 Denver .69 33 38 Detroit 49 Ft. Worth Helena, Mont. 47 JACKSON 80 Little Rock 82 Los Angeles 65 Memphis 77 Miami Beach 80 Minneapolis 46 Mobile 75 New Orleans 77 New York .62 Oklahoma City 83 Phoenix, Ariz. .91 55 St.

Louis .78 56 San Antonio 86 San Francisco .60 .25 Seattle 52 .30 Shreveport .84 52 Washington 63 40 Wichita, Kan. 80 51 Nation's Cold Spot: Oneonta, N. Y. 16. Nation's Hot Spot: McAllen, Tex.

104. Nail Services Set For Today GRENADA Services for Mrs. Rosabell Lott Nail will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Calvary Baptist Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery with National Funeral Home in charge. Mrs.

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Receives Award MUNCIE, Indiana--Tau Kappa Alpha, nationwide speech honorary society, named Duncan Gray rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Oxford, the winner of its "Speaker-of-theYear Award" for 1962. The announcement was made at the annual convention of TKA Society in Muncie, Indiana, April 9, by Dr. Wayne C. Eubank, chairman of the Society's awards committee.

Dr. Eubank, chairman of the University of New Mexico speech department, said that the Reverend Gray was chosen for the award as the man in the field of "WHIP LASH" NECK INJURIES A sudden jerk or jarring to the spine may cause a sprain or slignt misalignment of the spinal vertebrae. Many times auto accidents or athletic injuries are re sponsible tor these "whip DR. NORVILLE lashes." Common symptoms may be headaches, neck and backaches, which, if not corrected, lead to other more serious symptoms such as dizziness, palpitation of the heart, nervousness and other involuntary pains and reactions. Dr.

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