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COLITE COLITE TUESDAY, March 10, 1992 THE CLARKSDALE PRESS OK to dump solvent delayed With the absence of two commissioners due to an educational commitment, the Clarksdale Board of Mayor and Commissioners conducted a relatively brief and uneventful meeting Monday afternoon. Public Works Director Jay Hollingsworth briefed the board on a request he has received from the state Department of Environmental Quality to accept in the local landfill some 200 yards of "nonhazardous material" which spilled from a truck following a accident in Tate County Hollingsworth said state officials want to dispose of the petroleum solvent material in races, justices Lenore Prather and Michael Sullivan are unopposed. Justice James L. Robertson of Oxford is opposed by Pontotoc attorney James L. Roberts in the Democratic primary.

Two Democrats and three Republicans are in the race to succeed retiring Chief Justice Roy Noble Lee, who leaves the bench in January. Democrats in the race are Jackson attorney Frank Barber and Philadelphia attorney Laurel G. Weir. The GOP candidates are Hinds County Chancellor W.O. "Chet" Dillard, former Hinds County Judge James Bell, and Rankin County Judge Jim Smith.

Continued from Page One owns his own computer company. In the state Supreme Court the local landfill due to its proximity to the spill site. Prior to further consideration of the request, however, board members wanted to seek both a legal opinion and a additional information from the state agency. In its other actions Monday, the city board: Approved seeking three appraisals on a piece of property in the Riverton area which the Habitat for Humanity organization has indicated it might like to purchase. Approved a performance of The Great American Circus locally on April 13, to benefit the Police Benefit Fund.

Carried over until March 18, a scheduled disciplinary hearing on Clarksdale Police Officer Randy Gibson. The officer is to remain on a suspended with pay status until that time. Approved the purchase of a rabies control vehicle. Approved two ordinances requested by the Clarksdale Public Utilities Commission. One ordinance would allow for the Utility Commission to hold a hearing for customers prior to discontinuation of service for non-payment of bills, and the other would make a criminal violation for trespassing on Utility properties.

Proposal does not allow voters direct referendum JACKSON (AP) The Senate Constitution Committee today approved a plan to allow voters to petition the government for changes in the Mississippi Constitution. The proposal, which now goes to the full Senate, contains no direct referendum language, meaning voters would not be able to petition to put something directly on the ballot. Under the proposal, if the Legislature fails to act, amends or adopts an issue within four months of the petitions being filed with the House and Senate, the issue will go on the next general election ballot. If lawmakers change the issue in any manner from Obituaries Katharine Dickerson rites Wednesday Katharine Raynolds Dickerson, the two-year-old daughter of Jim and Kay Dickerson of Clover Hill Plantation north of Lyon, died Monday, March 9, 1992, at her home. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m.

Wednesday at St. George's Episcopal Church with the Rev. Ben Nelson conducting the service. McNeil Funeral Home has charge of arrangements. In addition to her parents, Katharine is survived by her grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Charles C. Bassett of Kennebunkport, Maine, and Mr. and Mrs. James S.

Dickerson of Memphis. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials to St. George's Episcopal Church. Services today for Mrs. Joann Basler Services for Mrs.

Joann Dykes Basler, of 1308 Edgemont Cove, were held at 2 p.m. today at National Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Dr. Thomas Tutor, pastor of Oakhurst Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was in Memorial Gardens.

Mrs. Basler died Sunday, March 8, 1992 at Baptist Hospital Central in Memphis. She was 59. She was born June 16, 1932 in Pontotoc, the daughter of the late James and Nellie Mae Moss Dykes. She graduated from high school in Sledge.

She was a member of Oakhurst Baptist Church and of the Discipleship Bible Class. Survivors include her husband, Charles Basler; three daughters, Mrs. Peggy Jo Sewell and Miss Christy Michelle Basler, both of Clarksdale, and Mrs. Debra Ann Comans of Greenville; two sons, Charles Basler Jr. of Lyon and Rady Basler of Clarksdale; two sisters, Mrs.

Annie Bell Knight of Helena, Ark. and Mrs. Saide Cook of Friars Point; three brothers, Johnny Dykes of Clarksdale, Andrew Dykes of Cleveland and Homer Dykes of Water Valley, and seven grandchildren. Services for Jim H. Wills Wednesday STEWART Services for Jim H.

Wills, 87, will be held Wednesday at 3 p.m. at the Crate Creek Baptist Church in Stewart with Lee Funeral Home of Winona in charge of arrangements. Mr. Wills died Monday, March 9, 1992 at the medical center in Tupelo. He is survived by three daughters, Jo Robertson of Clarksdale, Dora McAlpin of Mathiston and Polly Gilbert of Tupelo; five sons, Leon Wills, Truman Wills and Robert Wills, all of Stewart, George Wills of Cleveland and Audie Wills of Henderson, one sister, Ida Keen of Ware; 31 grandchildren and 45 great-grandchildren.

Claudia Kimmons rites Wednesday Services for Claudia Mae Taylor Kimmons, 66, of 523 Grant, will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at New Morning Star Church. Burial will be at Chulahoma Baptist Church Cemetery with the Rev. Lester C. Myles officiating and Delta Burial Corp.

has charge. A retired school teacher and former employee of the Dip DriveIn, Mrs. Kimmons died March 5, 1992 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. A native of Tate County and graduate of Rust College, she was extremely active in New Morning Star Church and a church Usher. She is survived by four daughters, Mrs.

Bernice Bowen and Mrs. Earnestine Hicks of Holly Springs, Miss Norma Kimmons of Clarksdale, and Mrs. Bertha Johnson of Port Gibson; three sons, James Kimmons and Samuel Kimmons, both of Clarksdale, and Clyde Kimmons of Inkster, three sisters, Mrs. Catherine T. Stewart and Mrs.

Rosie L. Taylor of Holly Springs, and Mrs. Beatrice T. Ball of Memphis; and two brothers, Jessie Taylor of St. Louis, and Simon Taylor of Holly Springs.

Sevens All Wednesday, You CRAWFISH Can Eat March 18 Music By: 287 Sunflower "FORTRESS" 627-4215 a Friday Saturday March 13 14 HAPPY HOUR Music By: 4 p.m.-7 p.m. "FORTRESS" REGISTER Plant managers stand near the rubble at the Prescolite Manufacturing Plant in El Dorado, Monday after an intense storm swept through the area. High winds with the storm caused damage to many homes and businesses in the area. -AP Laserphoto which it was filed with the House and Senate, then the original proposal and the amended version will appear on the ballot, giving voters a choice of the two. If the constitutional change is rejected by voters, the same issue cannot be raised for two years.

The Senate, proposal does not deal with changes in general laws. The committee refused to consider such an option. Tuesday midnight is the deadline for committees to act on bills dealing with general law and possible constitutional changes originating in their own house. Direct allows the residents to put a measure to the ballot, directly bypassing the Legislature. Indirect allows people to petition to get an issue before the Legislature, then lawmakers would have to act before an election is called.

If both houses agree on an package, it will go to voters on the Nov. 3 general election ballot. Already before the House is a proposal that puts restrictions on what measures can be addressed. Fordice adds to budget for education JACKSON (AP) Gov. Kirk Fordice today released an executive budget that recommends $800 million for Mississippi's public schools, an increase of $13 million over what legislative budget writers have proposed.

Fordice told a state Capitol news conference that his proposal also would put $175 million into the senior colleges, about $3 million over that proposed by the Legislative Budget Office. Fordice said he got the money by limiting some administrative expenditures in other education programs and elsewhere in state government. He said he had campaigned on reducing administrative costs in state government and planned to do so. The governor said his total $1.945 billion budget is $26 million less than that of the LBO. Fordice said lawmakers have plenty of time to consider his proposals along with those of the LBO.

April 2 is the deadline for the House and Senate to act on appropriations and revenue bills originating in their own house. Try the classified ads. 627-2201 Continued from Page One lines were down in the Zero community and U.S. 45 in Lauderdale County was blocked in a number of areas. Ham radio operators reported a number of homes and trailers were destroyed after the storm rolled through the rural area about six miles south of Meridian.

The NWS said that there were apparently two main tracks of storms Monday night and early today in the state one that moved from the Sharkey-Humphreys county area to Tupelo and another that went on a northeast track from north of Mendenhall through Lauderdale County. In addition to the injured at Anderson, Sandra Wood said 18 injured were brought in to Riley Hospital, while officials at Rush Foundation reported receiving at least seven people. have one person in surgery that will go to intensive care and we have one in intensive care that will be transported to a Jackson hospital," Wood said. Mrs. Roberts, 59, said two more of her adult children lived in the Causeyville Road area but suffered no storm damage.

"I really don't know the exact time it hit. All the power was out," Mrs. Roberts said. "I do remember waking up about 12:45, when there was a real loud clap of thunder. I lay there for a while, then all of a sudden there was a tremendous roar and all the windows went flying She said once her family was collected, they worked their way along tree-blocked roads to reach the hospital.

She said her son and daughter-in-law were admitted to the hospital "and I will take the baby home with me that is wherever we can go." The heaviest rainfall during the period was apparently between the Mississippi Delta and Tupelo, where two to three inches of rain fell. Golfball-size hail was also reported near Tupelo. Flash flood warnings were issued early today for Town Creek in Lee and Monroe counties. At Tupelo, the creek was rising at a rate of five feet per hour. Flood stage on the creek, which was at 16.9 feet early today, is 21 feet.

Two to four inches of rain has fallen in the creek Briggler, spokesman for the state Office of Emergency Services, said only minor injuries were reported. In Muscle Shoals, a tornado cut a path about one-half block wide and three to four blocks long, said Colbert County Emergency Management Agency Director Eddie Hicks. Two businesses were destroyed, and four other businesses and about 10 homes were destroyed, he said. Rescuers were slowed by downed trees that blocked several key, roads and by sightseers looking at the Continued from Page One damage, New Spring Arrivals! Stop In See Our Super Selections: Short Sets SHERMAN'S FASHIONS 239 627-7103 Ya200 Clarksdale VISA WELCOME THANK YOU The family of Wanda W. Fedric wishes to express their deepest appreciation for the loving support of our many friends during this time of great personal loss.

Your care and effort has comforted us, more than words can express, through this difficult period. E. M. Fedric Family basin since 6 p.m. Monday.

The NWS reported some wind damage and widespread street flooding in the southern section of Greenville after strong thunderstorms moved into Washington County from Louisiana. Much of the northern half of the border state was also under severe weather warnings Monday night. There were no injuries reported. A dispatcher with the Washington County sheriff's office reported seven homes were destroyed by an apparent tornado about 10 p.m. Monday in the farming community of Murphy, located just outside of Hollandale.

Farms shops and some heavy equipment were also damaged or destroyed, the dispatcher said. Weather service radar indicated a tornado over southeastern Copiah County around 11 p.m. Monday. The storm cell moved northeastwardly across the state, and could have been responsible for the fatal storm in the Zero community. The weather service issued a tornado watch for 59 Mississippi counties Monday night.

The watch materialized into a tornado warning in a number of counties. The watch, which included 49 counties in the central and north parts of the state, expired for most of the state at 1 a.m. Tuesday. A tornado warning was issued for Sunflower County around 9 p.m. No tornado was reported, but ham radio operators reported numerous power lines and few trees down between Ruleville and Indianola.

Earlier Monday, about a dozen homes were damaged when tornado-like winds slammed into a rural area of northern Yalobusha County, authorities said. "It just went right across the top part of the county, over Campground Road and on into Lafayette County, said Troy Stark, a dispatcher with the Water Valley Police Department. "We've got tree damage and power lines down out that way." No injuries were reported in the 1:30 p.m. storm north of Water Valley. Stark said most of the homes suffered relatively light damage, "but we've got at least two (homes) with some pretty heavy damage." trooper Sgt.

Rex Johnson. Meanwhile today, authorities said a 15-year-old Nebraska boy who was rescued Monday after spending nearly 24 hours outdoors in a blizzard with his dog was recovering well from hypothermia. Matt Meyers was listed in fair condition, and the dog, who had stayed at the boy's side, was fine, officials said. Book A Tan! New Bulbs Lotions MERLE NORMAN STUDIO 624-9310 THE CLARKSDALE PRESS REGISTER (USPS 115-960) Published daily except Sunday at 123 East Second Street, Clarksdale, Mississippi, by Delta Press Publishing Company, Post Office Box 1119, Clarksdale, Miss. 38614.

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