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News briefs Women's day program set Zion Baptist Church at 300 Lake Street is having a women's day program 11 a.m. Sunday at the church. The first half of the program is the Women of the Dawn and the second half is the Women of the New Testament, according to Mrs. Carrie May Foote, chairman of the program. The public is invited.

Horse reported stolen Police chief Tom Nance said today William H. Wilson of 415 N. Solomon reported his two-year-old Tennessee Walking Horse was stolen from a levee lot behind Chicago Mil! sometime July 4. Nance said the stallion was tall, red with one stocking foot. Monkey Store burns Xi Omicron chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority will sponsor a bake sale beginning at 8:30 a.m.

Saturday at the Sunflower food store on Main Street, according to Mrs. Bonnie Teater, publicity chairman. Church to hear ensemble The Bob Jones University Ensemble will present a program of hymns and sacred songs at the Christ Wesleyan Methodist Church here Sunday at 7 p.m. The songs have been specially arranged' for the Greenville, S.C., college group. Members of the ensemble represent five states--Michigan, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

Members of the brass ensemble are Nancy Kalkan, trumpet; Dave Marshall, trumpet; John Howell, trombone; Max Cordell, trombone, and Mary Anne Franklin, pianist. In addition to the musical presentation, Mike Barrett, who is in charge of the group, will give a gospel message. Supper at Moose Lodge The Moose Lodge on Miss. 1 is sponsoring a rooster fry and chicken supper tonight at 7:30 at the lodge. The cost is $1.50 per plate and proceeds will go to the Moose Heart Orphanage in Aurora, 111., according to Joe Joseph, civic affairs chairman.

Columbus man injured A Columbus man was in satisfactory condition today in King's Daughters Hospital following admission Thursday for a severely cut finger. He is Clarence Blackstone. Blackstone was reportedly injured while working for Metal Works at Hollandale. Details of the accident were unavailable. Bake sale slated The Monkey Store off Miss.

1 south of 'Greenville received heavy heat and smoke damage early today in a fire of undertermined origin. Asst. fire chief Johnny Henson said the fire was reported about 6:45 a.m. by the owner, Bob Yarber. He said old No.

2 made the run and used boosters on the fire. The fire burned about an eighth of the building but did heavy smoke and heat damage to the rest, he said. Starnes explains position to Cochran (left), Morris Staff Photo by Bill Rose Right-of-way Line won't yield Thermon Blacklidge Thermon Talmadge Blacklidge, 52, of 1244 Wayside Drive, Greenville, died Thursday night at the University Hospital in Jackson after an illness. Funeral services will be at 4 p.m. Saturday at the First United Methodist Church of Greenville.

The Rev. Dr. N. J. Golding will officiate.

Burial will follow in the Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. National Funeral Home has charge. Mr. Blacklidge was co-owner of the Young-Blacklidge Inc. He was born in Moselle and attended Jones County public schools.

He was a graduate of Delta State College in Cleveland, where he had been an outstanding athelete. A member of the First United Methodist Church where he served on the board of Stewarts, Mr. Blacklidge was past president of the Mississippi Mutual Insurance Agents Association and past member of the board of directors for the National Association of Mutual Insurance Agents. He also was a member of the YMCA board of directors at the time of his death. He leaves his wife, Mrs.

Alice Neff Blacklidge of Greenville; a son, Robert Lane Blacklidge of Louisville, a daughter, Mrs. Jim Cariker Moore of Alexandria, and a brother, W. T. Blacklidge of Louisville. Memorials may be sent to the Mississippi Kidney Foundation or to favorite charities.

Pallbearers will be John W. Young, Harper Young, Laurance Sievers, J. W. McNeely, H. L.

Speights and David "Boo" Ferriss. By BILL ROSE DD-T State Editor AVON--Western Line School Board is planning a strong effort to convince the county not to take 20 feet of right-of-way in front of O'Bannon School for a four- laning project on Reed Road. The board voiced strong opposition Thursday to selling "even a foot" of right- of-way on grounds the school would be "substantially damaged" if it had to part with land along its front, where the four- laning would take place. The board's emphatic stand came after district superintendent Charles Morris reported County Engineer Frank Janous told him the county would need "about 20 feet" of right-of-way for the project. That prompted board member Win Starnes to ask if there was a way to prevent the county from obtaining the right-of-way.

Board attorney James Robertshaw said the county could take the land against the board's will if it reimbursed the school district for damages to the property. Robertshaw later added that if the board of supervisors could be shown the damage would be so extensive as to make it too expensive to take the right-of-way, the loss of school property might be avoided by a supervisors decision to bend tile road 20 feet northward. It took less than 10 minutes for school board members and Morris to think up at least a dozen reasons why damages to the property would be just that extensive. Starnes said Reed Road is already too close to the school. "There is a noise factor too.

Those pines (in the path of construction) hold out more noise than you might think." Morris said traffic on the road would increase after four-laning. Board member Percy Bell agreed and said truck traffic would increase significantly. Board member Bill Eifling complained that the loss of right-of-way would reduce already inadequate parking and turnaround space for school buses and other vehicles. Starnes asked if there were not any "specifications where you are required to have so many acres for so many children." Morris replied that state accreditation standards limit the number of pupils that can be schooled on specific numbers of acres. He also pointed out that a water main, gas line, trees and a driveway are in the path of four-laning.

Board president Hiram Cochran suggested "a physical danger" involved in taking the land. "It could endanger the foundation," he said. (Morris added that the school was built over a slough.) Morris said the first 10 acres of school property cost about $500, the second 10 cost about $800 (in about 1956) and "it all ought to be pretty valuable now." He estimated the value of the school at over $750,000. Robertshaw suggested the school board have an "expert" appraise the potential damage if it appeared the county might take the land. He said if the school board went to the supervisors and told them the loss would result in substantial damage to the school for specific reasons, the board might reroute its four-laning northward to miss school property.

He used a Miss. 1 widening project that threatened part of the Hodding Carter property south of Greenville as an example. "When (the state was) confronted with the cost of replacing the trees and the hedges and the driveway, they decided not to take it," he said. "If you'll explain all this (to the supervisors) and then just jog a little, you'll have it," he said. The board voted to write the supervisors a letter voicing their objections in hopes it will not be necessary to hire an appraiser to prove damages.

"By the time we get through writing this up, they might pay us for not giving it (the right-of-way) to them," Starnes quipped. Two men held in burglaries Greenville police are holding two men in connection with two recent burglaries. Larry Dean White, 148 N. Theobald St. was arrested when he went back to pick up two bags of money hidden near the old Morgan Lindsey Store in the Thomas Shopping Center, according to Police Chief Tom Nance.

White was also charged with the burglary of Sherman's Sports Parlor in the same shopping center. The burglary occurred Wednesday night and the money taken in the burglary--about $340 placed in two bank bags--was found by police early Thursday. White returned to pick up the money around 2:15 p.m. Thursday. Police had confiscated the money, refilled the bags with rocks and staked the area out, Nance said.

John Nelson Riley, 23, of Metcalfe who allegedly drove White to pick up the money, is being held as a material witness, Nance said. In a search of Riley's car, police found other stolen merchandise--four guns and some stereo equipment, the chief said. Some of the material had been stolen from Dr. John C. Sandefur's residence at 187 Primrose Nance said.

Dr. Sandefur is on vacation. White was additionally charged with burglary and is being held in lieu of $1,000 bond on each charge pending preliminary hearing. A 13-year-old was caught burglarizing the Clay Street Cleaners at 620 E. Clay Nance said.

He said around 11:15 p.m. Thursday someone called the police and told them a burglary was in process at the cleaners. Just another girl on a raft By BILL ROSE DD-T State Editor Robert Kennedy's daughter came to Greenville Thursday. She came with no fanfare, no fancy clothes, no Cadilllac, no official escort, no official greeting. No more than a dozen people even knew she was here.

She came on a raft. Miss Kennedy, 21, dressed in blue jeans and a shirt, looked and talked quite unlike the pillars of Boston society with whom most people associate the Kennedys. She and her friends appeared more like three young people getting a thrill by riding the Mississippi River from Missouri to New Orleans. And that's exactly what they were. Miss Kennedy, Gary Carson, 26, of Biloxi, and David Townsend, 24, of Timonium, didn't want to talk much about their river adventures because they're contemplating writing about them later, but they did explain how they happened to be in Greenville for a day.

The small motor on their raft was out of gas and some people from Greenville in another boat towed them to a dock to donate some gas, she said. "That's where we saw the lion," Miss Kennedy said matter-of-factly. What she saw was the tame, de-toothed lion Jimmy Vickers keeps in a cage (and sometimes exercises outside the cage) at Greenville Shipbuilding near the mouth of Lake Ferguson south of Greenville. But the lion still looks like a lion. Kathleen Kennedy DPI "Yeah, he said, come over here and see this kitten and there was this lion," Miss Kennedy said with a smile.

"It was real dark and we didn't know where we were and then there's a lion." Before the lion, however, Townsend slipped while mounting the dock and fell between a barge and the dock, bruising his head in the process. "I just disappeared into the water and suddenly everything was black. I kept having this thought--well I'm drowning, I'd better get back to the surface." The next thing he knew, "some big Swede just reached down and swooped me back up." After getting the gas, Miss Kennedy related, she and her friends motored up to the Marina, where "a friendly man just opened up the kitchen for us." They were quite content to spend the rest of the night at the Marina, then went to King's Daughters Hospital to have Townsend's head bump examined. They were somewhat put out at the hospital because they "stood around waiting for a doctor or somebody to do something and nobody did," Miss Kennedy said. The three thought their appearance (Miss Kennedy in jeans and tennis shoes and her companions with beard and moustache)might have had somthing to do with the delay in getting someone to look at Townsend's head.

They finally decided to leave and Miss Kennedy wrote a note to the man who gave them a ride to the hospital. "Nobody knew who we were. Then I got to the bottom of the note and thought, what am I going to put? So I put my name--Kathleen Kennedy." A nurse just happened to be a black saw the name and "suddenly there were nurses everywhere," Townsend joked. The bump wasn't deemed serious and the travelers later found their way to the Hodding Carter residence where they found friends, food and rest to tide them over until their return to the river today. "We were hoping to make it to New Orleans in time to get to Miami Beach for the convention, said Miss Kennedy, who was also interested in hearing about the vice presidential bid being mounted by Delta Democrat-Times Editor Hodding Carter III.

"But I don't think we're going to make it," she said ruefully. She plans to cut the trip short, if necessary, so she can be at the convention for its opening Monday. After all, she is a Kennedy, river or no river. A Greenville Port Terminal spokeman said today that stevedores were discharging a LASH barge of steel. Waterways Marine of Greenville reported the following overnight river traffic: SOUTHBOUND--Mama Lere, Leslie Ann, Warren Hoagland and Rita Barta.

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