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for project Monday 2-Commonwealth, Greenwood, Tuesday, August 28, 1984 PEOPLE Tennis stars MARTINA NAVRATILOVA, left, and CHRIS EVERT LLOYD drop their usual sporting attire for elegant evening dresses at the Women's Tennis Association Seventh Annual Awards Banquet for the Benefit of the March of Dimes in New York Monday. Navratilova was awarded the 1984 Player of the Year. JOSPEH JACKSON, the father of singer MICHAEL JACKSON, convinced his son to go ahead with three concerts in Tennessee earlier this month, despite threats against the superstar's life. A private memorial service for TRUMAN CAPOTE will be held today in Los Angeles. A spokesman said plans were made to cremate the body and send the ashes to New York, where Capote had spent much of his life.

Among those scheduled to speak include actors JACK LEMMON and WALTER MATTHAU, author CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, and retired industrialist ARMAND DEUTSCH. Basketball star DAVID THOMPSON has filed a $20 million lawsuit against the Studio 54 discotheque in New York, charging its employees may have ended his career by assaulting him. KENNY ROGERS will sing for his supper and the world's hunger at a concert Sept. 1 in Cleveland, Ohio, when he invites his fans to show up with food. Six local companies and 15 auto dealers have pledged to match the public's contributions.

JEAN HARRIS, who was convicted of killing diet doctor HERMAN TARNOWER in 1980, is hospitalized in serious condition after suffering a heart attack. GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA'S villa in Rome was burglarized on Monday, robbing two house guests of about $600. Miss Lollobrigida was in the United States at the time of the robbery. The writing WALLACES are still at it. IRVING WALLACE'S novel "'The Miracle" hits the bookstands Sept.

6, while his wife SYLVIA is tolling over her third novel and daughter AMY is polishing her book on child genius, WILLIAM SIDIS. Brother DAVID WALLECHINSKY is at work on a sequel to his best seller, "Whatever Happened to the Class of '65?" Actor OLIVER REED was jailed and charged with criminal damage and behaving in a disorderly manner while drunk after ani incident at a hotel in St. Peter Port, Channel Island, Britain, Sunday. COMMUNITY CALENDAR WEDNESDAY Jerry Hare, executive director of the GreenwoodLeflore County Chamber of Commerce, will address the Greenwood Voters League at 8 p.m. at the American Legion Hut, 1103 Jordan St.

THURSDAY Greenwood Alcoholics Anonymous and Alanon will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church. The Greenwood Jaycettes will be collecting donations for Muscular Dystrophy from 10:30 p.m. Sunday to 5 p.m. Monday.

Collections or personal donations can be delivered to the Medical Group, 204 8th or by calling 453-0503. City, county officials disagree over project and county officials ap- County officials are seeking to parently are at odds over who will provide engineering services for an anticipated $1.5 million Airport Road bridge replacement project. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has determined the existing bridge located in Carroll County, but jointly owned by the city of Greenwood and Leflore County must be replaced as part of a $40 million Pelucia Creek flood control project. County officials said it has been agreed the city would handle all of the paperwork for the bridge project which involves removal of the 1968 bridge and construction of a higher, wider span.

The squabble over which firm would provide engineering services the lucrative, federally funded came to light during a meeting of the board of supervisors. Official says Walls hurting party Continued from page 1. without rancor, but staunch Mondale supporters among blacks, such as State Senator Douglas Anderson of Mississippi, are concerned that it will hurt both the Mondale ticket and the role of blacks in state politics. For one thing, he says, Walls and others are sending a signal to white candidates that they cannot expect black votes. Anderson says this will make it easier for white politicians to keep being sluggish i in delivering votes for black candidates.

Such a result would have particular consequences for the Congressional candidacy of Robert Clark, who enjoys almost universal support among blacks and whose race to become the first black congressman from the state since 1888 represents both the symbol and substance of political progress for blacks in the state. Clark is challenging Republican Webb DEATHS Franklin of Greenwood for the post. "If blacks don't feel obligated to support the Senate or presidential candidate, why should whites support the black congressional candidate?" Anderson said. "We are the only ones who lose in this because whites will still have a white president, a white senator, and we won't have a black congressman." ANDERSON SAID much of the support for Walls and for his demands came from former Jackson supporters who are trying to "recoup the losses" from the national convention and "who are not about the business of compromise." In South Carolina, James Clyburn, the state Human Rights Commissioner, who is head of a network of people who support black candidates in the state, muses over what he will do about a call from a Toy S. Denton OXFORD Funeral services for Toy S.

Denton, 83, who died Sunday at Oxford-Lafayette Hospital, were held at 2:30 p.m. today at the Delay Baptist Church near Oxford. Mr. Denton was a retired farmer. He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

May Houston Denton; one son, Bill Denton of Oxford; four daughters, Mrs. Juanita Crowson, Mrs. Mary Johnson and Mrs. Betty Johnson, all of Oxford and Mrs. Gwen James of Greenwood; two brothers, Dewey Denton and Howard Denton, both of Oxford; four sisters, Mrs.

Hallie Franklin, Mrs. Hilda Edwards, Mrs. Ina Jo East and Mrs. Jonnie James, all from Oxford; 13 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. Burial was in the Delay Baptist Church Cemetery.

Waller Funeral Home of Oxford was in charge of arrangements. Faye Marie Rutledge MT. PLEASANT Funeral services for Faye Marie Rutledge, 62, a former resident of Greenwood, who died Monday at Mt. Pleasant at the home of her cousin, Mrs. Sterling Owen, were held at 11 a.m.

today at Collierville Funeral Home in Collierville, Tenn. Miss Rutledge was born in Bradford, Tenn. She was graduated rom the University of Tennessee School of Dental Hygiene in 1941 and came to Greenwood where she was a dental hygienist for the Mississippi Department of Public Health until her retirement in June of 1982. She was a longtime member of the First Presbyterian Church in Greenwood, an honorary director of the Leflore County unit of the American Red Cross and a member of the Mississippi Dental Hygienists Association and the American Dental Hygienists Association. She was also an active member of the Greenwood Little Theatre.

She was buried in Bradford, Tenn. Mrs. Dorothy Welsh HATTIESBURG Funeral services for Mrs. Dorothy Heidelberg Welsh, 70, who died Monday at Methodist Hospital in Hattiesburg, were held at 2 p.m. today at Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home.

Mrs. Welsh was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church of Hattiesburg. She was preceded in death by her husband, Fulton James Welsh and daughter, Mrs. Martha Ellen Reichardt. She is survived by two sons, Fulton J.

Welsh Jr. of Arlington, Texas and Dr. Roland Patrick Welsh of Jackson; one sister, Mrs. Martha Heidelberg Boswell of Greenwood; one brother, Rowland Webster Heidelberg of Hattiesburg; and nine grandchildren. Burial was in Highland Cemetery.

Health problems sited in water district suit Continued from page 1. misuse funds. This mismanagement has led to residents being charged exorbitant rates for water and sewer services. None of the existing financial reports relating to the district have been done in compliance with generally accepted at accounting the complaint stated. THE SUIT cited the EPA audit, maintaining EPA auditors had questioned: the district's handling of "over $400,000" in government grant money; a huge salary increase to utility superintendent Donald Smith for "resident inspection" services; and $44,453 paid to Clark "for work in connection with construction projects." The complaint also contended "many residents of Rising Sun hav suffered from abdominal pains and diarrhea from drinking the water supplied to them by the defendants." Clark, who had served as administrator of the district since its creation in 1976, resigned the post last Jan.

1 and a new administrator has not been named. There also has been a sharp turnover of district commissioners during the past year. A series of sewer line cave-ins at Rising Run earlier this year created a health threat in the predominantly black subdivision south of Greenwood and focused public attention on the apparent mounting financial difficulties of the non-profit utility district. Utility officials reported ca deficienies and a lack of equipment as two major problems. Some Representatives of the district met in May with county supervisors, black state Senate candidate in Charleston.

It seems that the candidate, state Rep. McKinley Washington, who was a Mondale delegate to the national convention, is finding indifference among many black Jackson supporters in his race against a white incumbent to represent a newly apportioned district that is 54 percent black. "He needed someone to talk to the ward heelers and especially the Jackson supporters because they are talking about not supporting him and just sitting it out," said Clyburn, who is black. Clyburn served as an uncommitted delegate to the national convention and is thought to have credibility with the Jackson forces. Complicating the South Carolina situation is anger among many blacks over a plan to redistrict the state Senate.

The state's NAACP, which plans to sue over the plan, says not enough districts were created in which a black could win. MORE IMPORTANTLY, the NAACP attracted one of the state's newer residents, Jackson, to a rally early this month on the steps of the State Capitol in support of its position. A result was that 15 of the 18 black legislators switched positions and voted against the remapping. South Carolina exhibits both the new aspirations of the Jackson supporters and the old disputes over tactics. "You have to know when to hold and when to fold," Washington said of the disagreement on reapportionment.

He recalled the result of attempts two years ago to create a predominantly black congressional district in the state: "We and the NAACP held fast then and lost." Court awards radio licenses to residents Jackson Thompson Harris Reed SUNDAY After more than nine years of court battles and haggling, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted two Greenwood residents permanent operating licenses for two local radio stations, WSWG-AM and WSWG-FM. An FCC administrative law judge ruled Wednesday Leflore-Dixie headed by Keith Worrell, is the successful applicant for the WSWGAM license while Ron Grantham has been granted the license to operate WSWG-FM. In addition to Worrell, members of Leflore Dixie Inc. include Alice Worrell, Tony Browning, Hardin Browning, Susan Mansfield, James Brown and David Browning. Worrell said the license will take effect in 50 days if no one has objections.

Plans are inconclusive, Worrell said, about the changeover and operation of the station. Grantham was unavailable. For the past two years, the stations have been operating under a temporary license granted to Greenwood Joint Venture, four groups that were interested in the permanent license. At one time, the group consisted of four organizations; but before this week's ruling, at least two groups had dropped out of contention. The original groups included: Mid-Delta Broadcasting, of Greenwood; East Delta Communications, headquartered in Leland; Ron Grantham, owner- operator of Riverside Recording in Greenwood; and Leflore-Dixie Broadcasting Inc.

Leflore-Dixie Broadcasting originally composed of eight employees of the station, was renamed to Leflore-Dixie the successful applicant, and now includes seven people. The radio stations had been wrestling with licensing problems since 1975, when an FCC administrative law judge denied renewal of the operating license. In his ruling, the judge said the station misrepresented to the FCC in its renewal application facts concerning the stations' nonentertainment programming proposals, financial reports and equal employment opportunity programs. 12.6% Interest Applied To OPTIMA PLUS Universal Life Plan Don Lomenick Asso. Greenwood 453-3351 Lamar Life Ins.

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Chancery Clerk Willis Brumfield discussed the matter by telephone with Greenwood Mayor Lanier Harper during the meeting. Following the conversation, Brumfield said the mayor told him the city preferred that the firm of Pickering, Wooten, Smith, Weiss Inc. get the engineering contract. Willis, who was present during the meeting, said "$1.5 million" was a "ballpark" estimate on the bridge removal and construction project. He said it was hoped that parts of the old bridge could be salvaged and utilized on other county bridge projects.

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