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THE JACKSON SUN, 3 THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1965 Tellico Funds Get Approval TVA Purchases Are $232 Million For Fiscal Year Aquanaut Squad To Spend Weeks On Ocean Floor SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) Members of a squad of underwater pioneers called aqua-nauts plan to move into their Sealab research vessel on the bottom of the sea Sunday or Monday. Navy Capt. Lewis B. Melson said a specially built mother Youth Center Is Proposed LEXINGTON, Tenn.

"The city and county need an adequate and wholesome youth center or teen town," Mayor Jack Hay told members of the Lexington Business and Professional Women's Club this week. Speaking on "citizen ship awareness," Hay pointed out that "on the city and county level, our youth needs help of many kinds." Hay suggested the youth center be built with city and county funds and be administered by the area's civic clubs. He guar Vi-I 2 Travis McNatt, Glenn Ferguson and D. D. Ferguson Observe New Life On Old Land Trees Are Roots Of Career CSr.

7f'u kit- 3 Hi WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Appropriations Commit tee voted $5,775,000 to start con struction on the Tellico Dam proposed by the Tennessee Val ley Authority on the Little Ten nessee River East Tennessee. Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn. announced the action, which follows similar action by two sub committees. The Committee approved nothing for Tims Ford Dam in Middle Tennessee, Gore said, paving the way for a Senate-House conference committee to work out a possible com promise.

The House already has voted $5.5 million for Tims Ford on the Elk River. Gore, who engineered the Sen ate committee actions, said he hopes the conference committee will approve $6 or $7 million which can be divided between the two projects. Rep. Joe L. Evins, was the principal House backer of Tims Ford over Tellico which was contrary to the expressed desire of TVA as to which project had priority.

He said he will continue his fight in the conference commit tee for Tims Ford funds. Integration Plans Await Approval NASHVILLE (AP) Tennes see is one of four states in the Southern and border regions in which desegregation plans or assurances of compliance have been filed by all local public school systems, the South Education Reporting Service announced today. However, the service added that only 49 per cent of those plans or assurances have been approved thus far because of a large number of late mailings to the U.S. Office of Education. Federal officials have assured districts with unapproved compliance proposals that because of the late rush, funds will not be cut off during the first three months of school, the service said.

A total of 123 voluntary deseg regation plans have been filed by local school systems in len nessee, but only 45 of them have been accepted. Thirteen other school systems are under approved court-order desegrega tion plans and an additional 13 systems have submitted accep table assuarnces of compliance. Perry Is Leader Of State Meeting Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce manager Bill Perry heads the list of Chamber exe cutives attending the annual conference of the Tennessee As sociation of Chamber of Commerce Executives at Memphis. Perry, who serves as state president of the group, heads the three-day meeting which began Thursday. The group will discuss such topics as, "The Executive's Responsibility in Community De velopment," "The Chambers Role in Research and Development," "The Executive's Role in Building Attitudes and Re lationships," "What Industrial Development Agencies expect from Chambers of Commerce" and "What's new in Tennessee Chamber Programs." The meeting will be conclud ed Saturday.

Nazi SS Guards Are Sentenced FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) Six former Nazi SS guards and functionaries of the Auschwitz concentration camp were sentenced to the maximum term of life in prison today on charges of mass murder or aiding in the wartime mass murder of Auschwitz inmates. Eleven others drew prison terms ranging from 14 years to 3 years and 3 months. Three were acquitted. tl Ljrxnf Fingers To The Sky A Poisoned Tree Dies As Others Live ship, the Prrkoni, Wednesday began final preparations off Scripps.Pier for what he called the Navy's most ambitious undersea diving project. Melson said when the project ends six weeks from now, the Navy will have obtained the biggest batch of undersea diving information ever gathered.

Melson explained that the ex periment will determine the feasibility of men working at the bottom of the sea for ex tended periods and will help develop technology allowing div ers to operate safety and comfort at extreme ocean depths. The 200-ton Sealab will be lowered to a ledge on the side of Scripps Canyon off La Joll in 210 feet of water. It will be 3,000 yards from Scripps Pier. Tne bealat) first 10 man crew will stay in the lab for 15 days. Their leader is Navy Cmdr.

Scott Carpenter, an astronaut who orbited the earth three times in 1962. After 15 days, nine of the div ers will be brought to the sur face. If all works well, Carpen ter will stay down for the next 15-day period. During his underwater stay, Carpenter may have a chance to converse with fellow astronauts L. Gordon Cooper Jr.

and Charles Conrad Jr. as they whirl overhead in the Gemini 5 capsule. If the attempt proves feasible, conversation between spacecraft and diving bell would be tun neled through a Gemini track ing station at Point Arguello, Calif. Voting Is Heavy In Haywood BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. Vot ing was reported "heavy" here today as voters ignored the pos sibility of showers and flocked to the polls to vote in three runoff races.

Polls opened at 9 a.m. and by 10:30 some 626 Brownsville voters had cast then ballots. The only county-wide runoff was between Roy Davis, broadcasting executive, and Chief Deputy George Sullivan, in the sheriff 's race. Runoffs in the seventh dis trict include a magistrate's seat, with Bill Powell, Dr. By ron Cochran and Malcolm Dix on on the slate: and a road commissioner's slot, contested by Elbert Stewart and H.

D. Floyd. In the sheriff election earli er this month, Deputy Sullivan polled 2,132 votes to Davis's 872. Former sheriff Charlie Claiborne was third with 829 votes. In the magistrate race, Al an King led with 1,054 votes; Malcolm Dixon, 839; Bill Pow ell, 862; and Dr.

Byron Coch ran, 737 votes. In the election earlier, incum bent County Judge Bernie W. Cobb retained his seat, and Rawlins W. Moore, who has served as county court clerk for 30 years, was re-elected ov er William Joyner by 2,949 to 1,479 votes. Magistrates for the City of Brownsville are bpence uupree, Von H.

Lindsey and Floyd Hunter Smith. Jacksonian's Nephew Drowns In Minnesota Mrs. Claude C. Latta of 206 Fairmont was notified that her nephew, Howard Hirons of Waltenville. HL, was drowned today while fishing from a raft on a lake Minnesota.

Mr. and Mrs. Latta left the city today to attend the funeral in Waltenville. Harry Montgomery, director of the Elks fair committee, said this year's event would be Gibson County's 110th consecutive fair. Other Elks members working on the fair are Melvin Green and Frank Burrus.

Ted Gee said he would help supervise this year's fair. J3 Regional Roundup CHATTANOOGA (AP) Vice-Mayor Curtis Hixon was relieved of his duties Wednesday following a squabble with the town's mayor. Hixon, who also served as commissioner of fire and police, had released a directive on Monday accusing Mayor G. W. White of ticket-fixing.

White replied Wednesday, saying "I have never torn up a ticket and I never will." Clarence L. Bailey was appointed new vice mayor. The post of fire and police commissioner was left vacant. CINCINNATI (AP) The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday extended until Oct.

2, the time for filing rehearing motions in the jury-tampering convictions of Teamsters President James Hoff a and three associates. Hoff a's conviction from his Chattanooga jury tampering trial was confirmed in a lengthy opinion handed down here last July 29. He has been sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay $10,000 in fines. KNOXVILLE (AP) The University of Tennessee and the Tennessee Valley Authority will conduct a one-year pilot project in industrial development in the three-county Sequatchie Valley area, it was announced today. The Sequatchie Valley area includes Marion, Bledsoe and Sequatchie counties.

CHICAGO (AP) State Rep. Edgar H. Gillock, D- Memphis. has been elected to the executive committee of the newly-formed National Society of State Legis lators. Gillock's election came at the group's first annual elec tion here, attended bv repre sentatives from 32 states.

KNOXVILLE (AP) An offi cial of the Estes Kefauver Me morial Foundation said today the "one and only Tennessee goal" of the foundation is to provide an annual scholarship to a deserving student from every county in the state. Edmund Orgill of Memphis, finance chairman, said a county-by-county organization to solicit funds for the scholarships is being set up at the present time. NASHVILLE A Julian Brewer, superintendent of Henry County Schools for the past nine years, Wednesday was named executive secretary of the Tennessee School Boards Association. He will assume his new duties Sept. 1, succeeding Ernest Cotton of Lebanon, Tenn.

WASHINGTON (AP) Ten nessee senators were split Wednesday as the Senate de feated a move which would have forced Sargent Shriver to give up either his job as head of the War on Poverty or of the Peace Corps. Sen. Albert Gore voted for the bill, offered by Sen. Jacob Javits, R-NY. Sen.

Ross Bass was one of 59 senators voting against and defeating the measure. TV SPECIAL $1.19 Value 27-oz. 69c Plenty Of Free Parking 114 -116 Poplar Phone 427-9631 PONT WAIT TO BE ASKED! Buy a section of the Center Line of HIGHWAY 45 TODAY $1.00 per ft. SELMER, Tenn. A McNairy County youth is turning a long-time interest in trees into a foundation for a career.

Glen Ferguson, 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Ferguson of near Selmer, this year climaxed many years of forestry work by being named 4-H Forestry winner in Tennessee.

The honor entitles him to a trip to the National 4-H Congress in Chicago, where he will be competing for one of nine scholarships in forestry. With his background, he will be well prepared for college this fall where he will major in his principal interest. Glen's interest in trees goes back to when he was six years old and helping his father plant pine seedlings (which, incidentally, will be thinned this year). When Glen first entered a forestry contest, he was a Junior 4-H'er under 14 years old. That year he won district and state honors.

A never-say-die competitor, he won the next years first place in the district as a senior contestant, but failed in the state competition. After the third try, he succeeded as district and state win ner. His record book has a complete file of all the work he has done in the four years of competition. Glen projects have consist ed of planting 35,000 trees the first year, when he was a junior forestry winner, and about 000 each year for the next three years. The trees were planted on idle acres of their 400-acre farm south of Selmer off Highway 45.

Besides tree planting, he has killed undesirable trees on 150 acres. In addition to forestry work, Glen is one of Selmer's best football players, plays basket- Unwed Mother, 15r Charged In Death CHATTANOOGA (AP) A 15- year-old unwed mother faced murder charges today following a shooting Wednesday in which her three-week-old son was dead on arrival at a hospital and a daughter, 15 months, died early today. The shooting reportedly oc curred a the mother, Deb orah Harbison, and her older sister Marion argued. Marion Harbison told officers later she heard shots and ran to the room where Deborah was standing with a pistol in her hand. "I jumped up and grabbed up Elizabeth and Deborah said, Leaver her alone and let her Marion said.

The daughter, Eliza Disere, died in a local hospital. The son, Joseph, was dead on arrival at tne same hospital. KNOXVILLE (AP) The Tennessee Valley Authority reported today it bought materials, equipment and services totaling more than $232 million in 47 states during the fiscal year wnich ended June 30. The total included about $81 million for manufactured arti cles, $143 million for coal and coke, and $8 million for raw materials and services. Kentucky led in purchases by states with $138.6 million, most of it coal contracts.

Other TVA purchases by states included: Alabama, $10.5 million; Georgia, $2.3 million; Illinois, $5.6 million; Indiana, $4.1 million; Missouri, $1.5 million; New Jersey, $1.2 million; New York, $6 million; Ohio, $10.8 million, Massachusetts, $2.2 million; Michigan, $2 million; Mississippi, $3 million; Pennsylvania, $11.8 million; Tennessee, $10.4 million; Texas, $2.7 million; and Virginia, $4.7 million. Purchases from foreign countries during the year totaled $7 million, TVA said. Major purchases during the year included: For Johnsonville Steam Plant, four transformers from Westinghouse Electric Corporation for $2,500,000. For various substations, 10 transformers for $1414,147 from Legnano Electric Corporation to be made in Italy. Major sales of personal property included: Obsolete facilities of the National Fertilizer Development Center, Muscle Shoals, the old Memphis Steam Plant; and the Hales Bar Steam Plant Tennessee.

George Laster Rites Friday George Laster, 66, retired far mer and carpenter, died Wed nesday at 7 p.m. in the Jackson -Madison County General Hos pital where he had been a pati ent since Tuesday afternoon. He made his home at 118 E. Grand Mr. Laster was born in De catur County on May 15, 1899, son of the late John and Margaret Ann Haggard Laster.

In 1938, the family moved to Milan to make their home where he was engaged in farming acti vities until moving to Madison County in 1946. For the past two years he had made his home in Jackson. He was a member of White's Chapel Baptist Church. Survivors include his widow, the former Miss Opal Jacobs, to whom he was married in 1933; three sons, James Laster of Los Angeles, Carlis Laster of Jackson and Jerry Laster of the Lawrence Switch Road; a daughter, Mrs. Jimmie Phillips of Jackson; a step-daughter, Mrs.

Katie Smith of Memphis; six brothers, Arch Laster of Mi lan, Will Laster of Atwood, Er nest Laster of Medina, Roy La ster and Lee Laster of Memphis, and James H. Laster of Jackson; a sister, Mrs. Oscar Essary of Milan; 11 grandchil dren and two great-grandchil dren. Funeral services will be Fri day at 3 p.m. in the White's Chapel Baptist Church with the Rev.

Kester Cotton and the Rev. Onnie Blankenship officiating. Burial will be in Hopewell Cemetery at Medina with Lanier Funeral Home in charge. Pallbearers will be W. C.

Michael, J. L. Mott, James Hallie Allen, W. W. McCord, Cecil Mayfield and William Smothers.

The body will be at the funeral home. Officer Earns Higher Rank HUNTINGDON, Tenn. Lt. John Lumpkin of the Tennessee Highway Patrol office in Huntingdon has been advanced to his present rank this He and his family were in Nashville Tuesday for the official promotion. Coming to Huntingdon 16 years ago the patrol officer has been stationed here his entire career with the THP.

He is the son of Mrs. Mary Lumpkin of Rutherford with his family at the end of his military service. Lt. and Mrs. Lumpkin have two sons, Johnny and Jimmy, and make their home on Jackson Highway.

Johnny, a recent graduate of Huntingdon High School, will enter the University of Tennessee Martin Branch in September. Build or Repair it with SMDETE' Concrete and Mortar Mixes Quality Controlled. Just add water. Easy to use. Saves time and money.

Hign strength. 525 E. College 427-6768 anteed whole-hearted police support for such a project. The mayor said that in such a center, the youth would elect then own officials and be au thorized to deny rights to vio lators of a youth-drawn behavior code. "Experience has shown that teenagers are harder on their contemporaries than adults, who are prone to justify the action of youth," Hay said.

ihe club business session was presided over by Gladys AzbilL president, who reported on the State Fall Board Meet ing held in Nashville, Aug. 14 and 15. The club agreed to sponsor the showing of films on recognitions of early symptoms of cancer in women. Tune and place will be announced later, but it was tentatively set for Sept. 21 at 7:30 p.m.

Publicity will be the respon sibility of Mrs. Ophie Timber- lake, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Pear son, Mrs. Jane O.

Hunter and Mrs. Willie Lee Walker. Mrs. Azbill reported that the state convention will be Chat tanooga, June 16-19, 1966. At the National Convention in Washington the Tennessee Federation was hostess to the rep resentative from Finland, the president said.

The State legislature chairman asked that each club member write her senators and con gressmen, urging support of HR 6165 which deals with the repeal of statute 165 regarding the appointment of women to the clerkship in the executive department of the federal government. The National Federation con vention will be held in Atlanta, Ga. in 1966 and as one of the southeastern federations, Tennessee will be one of the hostesses. Finance Chairman Marie Jones announced a fund raising project which her committee recommended. They were au thorized to complete plans be fore publicity begins.

Interstate Link To Be Opened NASHVILLE (AP) Inter state Highway 40 will be opened officially from Nashville to Leb anon Aug. 26, with Gov. Frank Clement taking part in ceremonies marking the opening. The interstate stretch, nearly 20 miles from Old Hickory Boulevard in Davidson County to State 26 east of Lebanon, will add to the 360 miles of inter state highway already open in the state. The final interstate link between Nashville and Monterey, is expected to be opened by Dec.

31. This will an eight-mile sec tion across the Wilson-Smith county line. An additional 126 miles of interstate highway is under contract for grading, draining and bridge construction. When com pleted in seven years, the inter state system will have 1,050 miles in Tennessee. Dolphins Land In England MANCHESTER, England (AP) Four dolphins have landed at Manchester airport after a 29-hour flight from Mir ami, for the Cleethorpe Zoo.

They were pronounced in fine condition. Capt. Emil Hanson of the Miami Seaquarium, who caught the dolphins, accompanied them on the flight. He said he spent the time talking to them and splashing them with water "just to let them know there was someone there with them." SALE PRICE ONLY lit 4 it -r sponsor of 4-H Club forestry ac tivities in Tennessee. The com pany presented a $50 war bond to Glen after he won honors his junior winner.

This year Southern Bell will pay his expenses to Knoxville as state winner and also to the 4-H Club Congress in Chicago this December. Travis McNatt is Southern Bell group manager at Selmer. Fair At Trenton To Open Sept. 6 TRENTON, Tenn. The Gib son County Fair will be held the week of Sept.

6, and will be what was termed an interim fair today by Ted Gee, fan- manager. Gee refuted reports in some newspapers that the annual event had been canceled. "Although the fair board voted not to sponsor this year's fair, a somewhat smaller event, including livestock competition and a carnival, will be sponsor ed by the Elks Club," he said. Gee emphasized that it would not be a full-sized fair, but said "we will have enough compe tition classes and entertainment to call it a fair." "The fair board was not able to get Trenton's new fair grounds ready for a full-scale fair this year, but plans are al ready being made for next year's show on the completely new fairgrounds," Gee said. The fair manager, also Gibson County Agent, said bids would be received "within the next few months" on three all-metal buildings to be built on the new fairgrounds on Highway 45 south of Trenton's industrial park.

"Grading has already started for entrances, and a countour map is being developed for the grounds," Gee said. MS ball and likes coon hunting. Glen is active in the Baptist Church in Selmer. The four years he has competed in 4-H forestry events, he has been under the supervision of Leon Jones, assistant county agent of McNairy County. Southern Bell Telephone Telegraph Company is a major Calm (Continued from Page 1) Muslim sect's Los Angeles mosque.

Fifty-nine Black Muslims were arrested in the raid. It was carried out on a tip that weapons were being taken into the building. Police said shots fired from the building hit two police cars. Officers responded with hundreds of rounds of gunfire that riddled the mosque. Nine Muslims in the building were cut by flying glass but no one was shot.

No weapons were found in the mosque. Police said Carlos Cavitt, 18-year-old Negro, was shot and critically wounded Wednesday night. They said he disregarded orders to stop when he was caught carrying a marble topped table through a furniture store's smashed window. West Virginia was admitted into the Union as a state in 1863. 1 1,1 y-j YOU ALL COME Each Friday 5 p.m.

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The First Boys Arrive At Youth Town September 1st. MARKET A BALTIMORE l8TSWiJirfeWiJld: I PH0KE 422-2312 Walter Wallace of Humboldt, Larry Alexander of Union City and Ronnie Cambron of Jackson; the remaining three students are from Alabama. They are working with senior scientists in 44 different research projects covering the agricultural, physical, engineering and biological sciences. RESTAURANT SCIENEERS High ability high school students from Alabama and Tennessee participating in a summer science institute at Mississippi State University called scie-neeri hear about photography through a microscope from Dr. John C.

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