The Jackson Sun from Jackson, Tennessee • 20

PAGE SIX Tune In WTJ.C THE JACKSON SUN Want Ads 1106 SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1941 (By Editor Harris Brown) Farm Bureau to Meet Shell-Loading Plant Commits Suicide Big Building Tear Likely Food Stamps Site Of Military Expansion The quarterly meeting of the Madison County Farm Bureau will be held at 7:30 p. Jan. 8. at Brown's High i chool, President James Lawrence ann unced Tues day. J.

Stanfird, editor of the Southern Agriculturist, will be principal speaker after new offi cers and directors are introduced. President Lawrence said. A social program will be con ducted by County- Agent T. W. Hillsman, Assist.

Agent M. H. Lut-trell and Home Agent Mary Camp bell. Principal Resigns Resignation of Charles Calhoun as principal of Turyear High School and appointment of Cletus Flowers as his successor has been announced by. L.

B. Browning, county superintendent. Mr. Calhoun has accepted a position as business manager of the cafeteria at Middle Tennessee Teachers College, Murfreesboro. Mrs.

Calhoun will be dietitian. Mr. Flowers has been principal of Puryear Elementary School. The changes are effective immediately. A new elementary principal has not been appointed.

Changes affecting other schools also were announced. Liquor Charges Filed Highway patrolmen arrested two men, one a negro, at Paris over the week end on charges of possessing small amoi ts of liquor, and placed an additional charge of driving while intoxicated against one. Hershel Dumas, negro, of this city, was fined $10 and costs when taken before Squire C. G. Neese for a hearing on the charge of possessing a small quantity of gin.

Similar action was taken against Ralph Redmon, also of Paris, when he was given a hearing u. a duplicate charge. Redmon was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of driving while drunk and bond was set at $250. Both arrests were made by Highway Patrolmen J. McKenzie and J.

Abernathy. 0- -Mm 5P AV i. about $13,000,000 in this area around 7- fve 1 Discussion of two major reforms and the election of a chairman for 1941 headline the order of business released Wednesday for the regular January meeting of the Dyer County Quarterly Court Monday. Th court is expected to consider the adoption of the food stamp plan and the installation of a budget system, according to Judge L. C.

Fumbanks. The food stamp plar which would replace the present method of distributing surplus food commodities to relief clients and workers, was investigated by city authorities several weeks ago. They were advised by Federal authorities that adoption here must be on a countrywide, rather than a city vi ide basis. Two Murder Cases Set Tho Circuit Court of Hardeman County will convene at Bolivar Monday morning. The docket will be light, according to Clerk E.

L. Hurt, with th exception of two murder cases. One case is that of William Grayson of Corinth. whose car allegedly struck and killed Roy Tucker of Savannah, jne mile east of Bolivar on Highway 64. The other is a 12-year-old charge against Gas Johnson, negro, who was arrested recently.

ISEW COLD STORAGE LOCKER SYSTEM HUNTINGDON, Jan. 4 Huntingdon will soon possess a new cold storage individual locker system, similar to those being constructed throughout the South. C. E. Bolen.

Huntingdon groceryman, will manage the operation of the new industry, which is to be installed in a new brick building being constructed on Second Avenue. The plant will have a capacity of 120 lockers, according to Mr. Bolen. This plant will be the second cold storage locker system in the county, McKenzie being the first community to secure such a plant. i The largest building program in Jackson's history was carried out in 1940 when building permits totaled $876,874, City Engineer John Gasell said Wednesday.

During the year 375 permits were issued as compared with 165 in 1939, totaling $358,427. The 1940 figure is the largest since 1924 when it was $638,740, he said. The figure includes the city's two housing projects which were listed at $526,240, but does not include the city sponsored drainage and brige projects which cost $60,000. School Delegates Named Delegates from McNairy County to the Representative Assembly of the Tennessee Education Association which meets in Nashville Jan. 10-11, are A.

M. Taylor, W. G. Robinson, O. D.

Teague, Hugh MacArthur, Hubert Plunk and J. T. Depoyster, Supt B. T. Kiser and County Elementary Supervisor C.

T. Turner will attend. Record Postal Tear Jackson's postal receints. con sidered a reaonahlv barometer of general business con- amons, sirucK an all-time high in ww with a total of $128,803.40. Assistant Postmaster Wnnrl Vol.

ton said Tuesday. ine ngures topped nat of 1939. itself a record in the citv's his tory, by $4,753.75. Mr. Yelton said.

aaamg mat receipts for the Christmas period, Dec. 15 to 24. were $7,738.51 as compared with 488.49 last year, a gain of 17.3 per cent. Observe Anniversary Mr. and Mrs.

A. W. Harrington celebrated quietly Thursday the 51st anniversary of their wedding. Mr. Harrington is a member of the Methodist choir and was recently elected president of the Men's Bible Class fthe Methodist Sunday school, the class taught by judge rial Holmes.

oooooo yvsli mi me training 01 national guarasmen. Saunders Morgan Morton. 31, shot himself to death at 8 a. m. Monday at the A.

W. Morrison store at Rossville where he was employed as clerk. Mr. Morton suffered a nervous breakdown six months ago and only recently returned to work. According to the repo of investigating officers, he Shot himself with a shotgun.

Ill health was blamed for the act. Deaths of Week Oscar L. Wilson. 64, at Fruit-land. John T.

Dungan, 74, at Humboldt. Mrs. B. M. Pickens.

32. at Adair. Troy Etheridge, 51, at Bethel Springs. Mrs. Emma O'Daniel, 68, at Union City.

Mrs. Donnell R. 1' 48, at Union City. Mrs. Jennie Simpson at Middle-ton.

Mrs. Nannie O'Neill, 89, at Ger- mantown. Mrs. Minnie Warren, 67, at Jackson. Willie Parks, 51, at Gleason.

Mrs. John H. Hamm, 73, at Sel-mer. Ernest Harris at McKenzie. Miss Jo Ruby Phillips.

19. at Dyersburg. Thos. Lee PowelL 77. at White- ville.

E. D. Poole. 42, at Dyersburg. James E.

Dew, 72, at Covington. John B. Thompson, 67, at Rutherford. Mrs. Mary Rogers Brown, 89, at MrKenzie.

Mrs. Ida Barnett, 57, at Humboldt. Will A. Taylor, 67, at Jackson. Mrs.

J. F. Curlin, 68, at Denmark. L. L.

Cottongim, 92, near Jackson. Mrs. R. W. Quindley at Memphis.

Edward Joseph Barry, 54, at Jackson. Mrs. Bettie Powell, 81, at Stanton. A. B.

Dickinson, 73, at Dyers burg. IV; 1 TV 77 mvfc 7- (1 1 4 -v WHAT Increased expenditures in the construction of the shell-loading plant and storage igloos in Milan have been ordered by the War Department which had announced at the outset that fourteen millions would be spent by the government. The figure has now reached $28,000,000. Work is expected to begin within the next few weeks. To Remodel Hotel Plans to modernize and redecorate the Forked Deer Hotel, Dy-ersbi rg landmark for half a century, were announced Wednesday by E.

M. King and Joe Baker, new operators. Mr. King and Mr. BaJ-er, both local business men, are owners of the corner site on which the 63-room hostelry is located.

However, for the last six years it has been leased to Mrs. J. R. Martinetti. who assumed management of the hotel following her husband's ith almost two years ago.

Much Building New Construction in Dyersburg for 1940 totaled $170,530, second highest mark in the past decade, according to building permit figures released Thursday by Dyersburg officials. The total was surpassed only by the 1939 top mark of $303,406, which included the new Dyersburg High School building at a cost Of $228,656. 94 Join ccc Ninety two white youths and two negroes from McNairy County will be sent to CCC camps Xu January, according to the local office. The 32 to leave Jan. 7 are to go to Tennessee camps.

The 60 white boys who are scheduled for service Jan. 13 will go to the Pacific coast. Outstanding Citizen G. S. Funderburk.

Bruceton banker and one of West Ten ss-see's most progressive civic leaders, has been named by the Bruceton. Lions Club as the outstanding citizen of that city. The honor came at the close of the year which has seen numerous progressive steps taken in Bruceton. Fla At McKemie With influenza air dy reported in mild epidemic stage. Superintendent Robert Marshall of the McKenzie school and the City Board of Education acted on the advice of the city health officer, P.

E. M. Alexander, and announced schools would not open Thursday, as had been expected, but will remain closed until Monday morning, in an effort to prevent spread of the disease. Physicians estimated Tuesday that several hundred cases have developed during the last four days in McKenzie and surrounding territory. If the disease continues to spread, the schools will not open Monday.

Nutrition Stressed Emphasizing the importance of well-rounded home life to the national defense program. Miss Margaret Ambrose, assistant state extension director in charge of home demonstration work, told home demonstration agents of West Tennessee here Thursday that nutrition will be the major plank In a strong extension prom-am in 1941. Mxtinff for the annual session In the New Southern Hotel, the gents discussed in detail achievements of the past year and laid extensive plans for the next year's work. Baptist Unions Meet The Carroll and Benton County Women's Missionary Union of the Baptist Church will hoL. its regular quarterly meeting with the Bruceton Baptist Church Union Tuesday.

Mrs. Ernest Smith of Huntingdon will preside over the all-day session. Visiting speakers for the program will be Miss Wilma Bucy of Birmingham, field worker of the Home Mission Board, and Miss Mary Northington of Nashville, state secretary. Heading the business for the session will be the regular reports of the officers and committees. Bank Elects Th Ttanlc Middleton Wednes day, at a meeting of directors and stockholders, elected for another year, George T.

Webb of Memphis, president: F. Lester Simpson, cashier: H. Grady Simpson, assistant cashier: John Wilson, vice president: J. F. Jenkins, second vice president, and M.

Wilson, J. O. Neely, W. P. Tillmon and J.

H. McCommons. directors. A 15 per cent dividend will be paid. Grand Jury Called fc- if i.

1 75. i 4 1. ir T-j-ii The government plans to spend Benefits f7- o)'; 4 4 7n? Camp Austin Peay, Tullafroma i Ol pi1 1 Vault Pol icies R. B. iirm 5.

Funeral I George A. Smith, Pres. Cash Protection This Institution is Open for Your Inspection At Any Time Members of the gi-and jury for the eastern district of the western division Federal Court have been called for a mid-term session Jan. 10. Mrs.

John H. Trice, clerk, announced Tuesday. Two petit juries, she said, have been summoned for Jan. 15, when Ju Marion S. Boyd of Memphis will be here for arraignments.

A third petit jury has been called for the following day. Pastors Change Pulpits liU Jackson, Tennessee Phone 3200 Rev. C. C. Thompson ended his four-year ministry at the First Christian Church at Paris Sunday with the regular services.

He has accepted a call to the First Christian Church. Murray, Ky whose pastor, the Rev. A. V. Havens, has been called to the Paris church.

The changes are effective Jan. 1. Smith, Vice-Pres. Dyersburg, Tenn. Phone 302.