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SS 8A The Jackson Sun, Jackson, Monday, Jan. 2, 1984 -monday briefing- New offices dot northern part of town Small office buildings have popped up like mushrooms along the northern edge of town. Accountants, dentists, insurance agencies and real estate firms have flocked to Carriage House Drive and Stonehaven Office Park on U.S. 45 Bypass. Many firms have bought their own buildings, renting out any space they don't need.

Murray Guard in a joint project with Brasfield Construction is trying a new variation on that theme: office condominiums. They call i it Murray Square, a development on U.S. 45 Bypass near the Murray Guard headquarters. When it's finished, it will comprise 50,000 square feet of office space in 12 colonial-style buildings, said Roger Murray, president of Murray Guard. The first building is occupied and two others are nearing completion.

Each building can be subdivided and sold in segments as small a as 2,000 square feet, especially appealing to smaller firms that want to own their offices but aren't interested in buying more space than they need. "It's a concept both Roger and I felt Jackson was ready for and would give us an advantage from a sales standpoint," says Ken Brasfield, president of Brasfield Construction who also was a partner in the development of nearby Stonehaven Office Park. Dr. Charles Herron, a dermatol- Murray Square is a iums. ogist, bought half the first building in Murray Square for his dermatology practice.

Accountant Jerry Philhours owns the other half. (South Central Bell will lease the second and share the third with Murray Guard.) "I think this arrangement has a great death of Herron, moved from rented space in town. "It's just nice to own your own building." It has tax advantages, too, in the form of depreciation and deductions for interest payments on the purchase. Like the other office buildings north of town, these appeal to firms and professionals who draw much of their clientele from surrounding towns. "There is easy access," Herron says.

"It's easier to describe how to get here than to an office in town, and the traffic is not as bad." Similar office developments on the 90-acre Murray Guard site are likely to follow this one, Murray deaths More death notices are on Page 8B. Coble Harris CAMDEN Services for Coble Harris, 77, were today at Stockdale-Malin Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Leonard Greer officiating. Burial was in Eastview Mr. Harris died Saturday at St.

Thomas Hospital in Nashville after a long illness. He was a retired highway construction worker. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Onie Pearl Harris; a daughter, Mrs. Joan McDaniel of Camden; a son, Mack Harris of Camden; a brother, Clyde Harris of Detroit; and five grandchildren.

Mrs. Lizzie Harrington DECATURVILLE Services for Mrs. Lizzie Harrington, 75, were today at Parsons Mortuary with the Rev. Jayhue McCorkle officiating. Burial was in Peace Chapel Cemetery.

Mrs. Harrington died Sunday at Methodist Hospital in Lexington after a long illness. She leaves four sisters, Mrs. Mary Baker, Mrs. Lona Cruse, Mrs.

Haughtie James and Mrs. Artie Pratt, all of Decaturville. Jerry Wayne Martin SCOTTS HILL Services for Jerry Wayne Martin, 38, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Scotts Hill Funeral Home with Danny Adkisson officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery near Scotts Hill.

Mr. Martin died Sunday at Methodist Hospital in Lexington after apparently suffering a heart attack. He was a member of the Pipefitters Local No. 798. He leaves his wife, Mrs.

Linda Martin; two sons, Bradley and James Martin of Winterhaven, a stepson, Mark Allen Osteen of Brownsville, and a stepdaughter, Lisa Osteen of Scotts Hill; his mother, Mrs. Carmen Martin of Scotts Hill; a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth James of Niceville, and two brothers, Billy Martin and Thomas Martin, both of Scotts Hill. Floyd Vester Lowrance BRADFORD Floyd Vester Lowrance, 76, died Sunday afternoon at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital after a short illness. Arrangements are incomplete with Hunt Funeral Home of Bradford in charge.

Christmas all over. The effect of the advertising "is really hard to judge," acknowledged Denis Rainey, president of the council. "You just have to go by instinct and be confident in yourself." To his thinking, "it did pay off. I am pleased." "I had a lot of people tell me who came in from out of town that they saw the ads on WBBJ," said Bill Rowe, a vice president of the council. Not everyone was happy, however, with the choice of advertising over decorations.

"I think the absence of downtown decorations was not very good," said Lee Hamlett, manager of Woolworth's, not a participant in the council. "I had people come in and tell me that even the little towns had decorations downtown." The council sponsored a decorating contest on the old-fashioned theme to help fill in for the lack of street decorations. It drew fewer participants than hoped for 13 but, Rainey concluded, not a bad showing for the first year. Several merchants got together and decided to buy parts of an old set of street decorations that had been stored for several years and hang them themselves. Jackson National Bank put up several on its block, but others were stopped by bad weather, Rowe says.

All in Rowe said he's satisfied the council "did a pretty good job this year" of striking "some middle ground that everybody can live with." Next year may call for a different approach, he added. By that time, the much of the Townlift renovation work now in progress will be completed new sidewalks with plantings, bus shelters and redesigned parking lots. "I think downtown will be tremendously changed. I think we'll have something really to sell next year." Sun staff photo development of office condomin- said. Each probably will be done in a different style.

Advertising replaced decorations this season This holiday season, the Downtown Council faced its annual dilemma spend more than $2,000 to hang a set of well worn street decorations or use the money another way. For the first time, it opted to leave the Christmas decorations in storage. It chose instead to spend $3,000 on advertising to try to draw shoppers to an "Old Fashioned Christmas Downtown." It did turn out to be a good Christmas selling season downtown, retailers say, but then, it was a good Elmer Smith TRENTON Services for Elmer Smith, 78, were today at Shelton Funeral Home with the Rev. Mike Kemper and the Rev. Dennis Pulley officiating.

Burial was in Whitehall Cemetery. Mr. Smith died early Sunday at Gibson General Hospital in Trenton after a long illness. He was born in Perry County and had lived nearly all his life in Gibson County. He was a member of Whitehall Baptist Church.

He was a retired farmer. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Delphia Moore Smith; a daughter, Mrs. Leonard Coffman of Trenton; a son, Bernard Smith of Milan; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Spradling of Bloomington, and Mrs.

Eunice Silverblatt of Trenton; five brothers, Leonard Smith of Fruitland, William Smith of Lakeland, L.V. Smith of Rutherford, Robert Smith of Somerville and E.T. Smith of Trenton; two stepsisters, Mrs. Grace Brightwell of St. Louis and Mrs.

Byron Robertson of Oklahoma; a stepbrother, Ezra Kirk of Trenton; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Mrs. Myrtle Swink KENTON Mrs. Myrtle Swink, wife of Carl Swink, died early today at Union City Baptist Hospital after a long illness. Arrangements are incomplete with Karnes and Son Funeral Home in charge.

Joe Norman RUTHERFORD Joe Norman died Sunday morning at JacksonMadison County General Hospital after a long illness. Arrangements are incomplete with Karnes and Son Funeral Home in charge. Mr. Norman was a retired barber. Mrs.

Frances Abernathy Smith SELMER Services for Mrs. Frances Abernathy Smith, 76, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Shackelford Funeral Home with David Comperry officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. Mrs.

Smith died Sunday morning at her home after a long illness. She was a retired schoolteacher and a member of First United Methodist Church in Selmer. She leaves her husband, J. Troy Smith; two daughters, Mrs. Nancy Darrow of San Antonio, Texas, and Mrs.

Martha 1 Brasher of Temple, Texas; a sister, Mrs. Lois Newman of Memphis; a brother, J.R. Abernathy of Corinth, and five grandchildren. RESTAURANT OPEN IL AN THURSDAY 29 TH Sun photo by Larry Atherton The Grecian Restaurant is one of two recently opened fullservice restaurants. 2 restaurants brave tough city market You have only to think of all the restaurants that used to be here to know that serving meals to the public is an unforgiving business.

Your location doesn't suit people? You lose. Your service isn't quite quick enough? Forget it. You're new at this and you can't seem to match your buying to your sales to your menu prices? Ta-ta. A couple of newcomers with fullservice, sit-down restaurants are facing this trial by consumer. The Mrs.

Lura Beasley Higdon BRUCETON Services for Mrs. Lura Beasley Higdon, 86, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church near Bruceton with the Revs. Kenneth Massey and Robert Noles officiating. Burial will be in Prospect Cemetery at Hollow Rock with Bruceton Funeral Home in charge.

Mrs. Higdon died early today at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Huntingdon after a long illness. A native of Carroll County, she was a member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. She leaves her husband, Orville C. Higdon of Bruceton; five daughters, Mrs.

Lorene King of Melvindale, Mrs. Lewana Smothers of Camden and Mrs. Dorothy Edwards of Huntingdon, Mrs. Onellia Kirk and Mrs. Betty Foreman, both of Bruceton; three sons, James Higdon and Bobby Higdon, both of Hollow Rock, and Millard Higdon of Bruceton; 17 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Ena McCarley Simmons HUMBOLDT- Services for Mrs. Ena McCarley Simmons, 76, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Hunt Funeral Home with Dr. Jim Stovall officiating.

Burial will be in Rosehill Cemetery. Mrs. Simmons died Saturday afternoon at Bolivar Community Hospital apparently after a heart attack. She was born a and reared in Hardeman County, and had lived in Humboldt for 34 years. She was a member of Central Avenue Christian Church.

Mrs. Simmons was a retired telephone operator and a member of the Telephone She leaves two sisters, Mrs. Velma Keller of Toone and Mrs. Lela Hammers of Teague. Gonzales family is serving Mexican fare at El Matador in Hamilton Hills Shopping Center.

Jim Adamopoulos is testing the local taste for Greek dishes at the Grecian Restaurant on Carriage House Drive. They won't find customers any more forgiving than ever. But if they do hit on a winning combination, they may find customers a bit more willing to spend than they would have been just a year ago. The economy is being kinder now to restaurants of all kinds, says Ronnie Hart, executive vice president of the Tennessee Restaurant Association. "A year ago, we had a tremendous number of closings.

There haven't been that many this year." In particular, customers seem to be eating more often at full-service restaurants, though "by no means are they stopping your fast food," he says. In Madison County, restaurant sales in the first 10 months of 1983 were running 11.1 percent above the same period in 1982, well ahead of the paltry increases seen in 1982. Some particularly popular eating places have seen even larger increases. At Shoney's on North Highland Avenue, 1983 sales topped 1982's by about 26 percent, says Loyd Jones, district manager for Shoney's South Inc. Even after taking out increases in menu prices, "that still means we had a 20 percent real gain," something not seen since about the mid-'70s, he says.

The improving economy played a large part in the increases, Jones says. "But we did some things on' our own, too, that helped," including adding a popular breakfast bar and building an "atrium" addition to the dining room. Lisa Frye Jessie Edward Turpin HUMBOLDT -Services for Jessie Edward Turpin, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Hunt Funeral Home with the Rev. Jim Yarbro officiating.

Burial will be in Gibson County Memory Gardens. Mr. Turpin died Saturday evening at Cedar Crest Hospital in Humboldt after a long illness. He was born and reared in Evarts, and had lived in Humboldt for the past three years. He was a member of the Humboldt VFW and the DAV.

He had served in the United States Navy. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Ruth Ann Turpin of Humboldt; two daughters, Mrs. Priscilla Machinsky of Haywood, and Mrs. Pamela Dennison of Long Beach, two sons, David Turpin and Jessie Turpin both of Alameda, his father, Ed Turpin of Evarts, three sisters, Mrs.

Judy Cloud of Humboldt, Mrs. Marie Evans and Mrs. Maxine Hatmaker, both of Lexington, a brother, Bobby Ray Turpin of Lexington, and two grandchildren. Mrs. Blonea Kaufman SOMERVILLE Mrs.

Blonea Kaufman, a former employee of the Madison County Health Department, died early today at Baptist Hospital in Memphis after a long illness. with Arrangements are incomplete Peebles Fayette County Funeral Home of Somerville in charge. James Hughbert Winborn Jr. SAVANNAH Services for James Hughbert Winborn 78, were today at First Presbyterian Church in Savannah with Ben Bratton and John Pippin officiating. Burial was in Savannah Cemetery with Shackelford Funeral Home in charge.

Mr. Winborn died Saturday afternoon at Hardin County General Hospital after a long illness. He was a retired terminal manager for Shull Truck Lines. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church and was a Mason. He leaves his wife, Mrs.

Sarah McCaa Winborn; a daughter, Mrs. Sarah W. Davis of Murfreesboro, N.C.; a son, James Hughbert Winborn III of Savannah; a sister, Mrs. Ann W. Barrette of Stone Mountain, three brothers, Sam R.

Winborn of Columbus, Vernon Winborn and Billy Winborn, both of Savannah; and three grandchildren. Mrs. Mary Juanita Bogle Watkins TREZEVANT Services for Mrs. Mary Juanita Bogle Watkins, 67, were today at Pleasant Green Cumberland Presbyterian Church near Milan with the Revs. George McMinn and J.W.

Hays officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery with Bodkin Funeral Home in charge. Mrs. Watkins died Saturday night at City of Milan Hospital after a long illness. A native of Carroll County, she was a member of Concord Baptist Church near McKenzie.

She was the widow of Ermon L. Watkins who died in November 1983. She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Sarah Gallimore of Trezevant and Mrs. Barbara Campbell of Bradford; four grandchildren, Miss Renae Gallimore of Trezevant, Kevin Campbell, Miss Kelly Campbell and Miss Brittany Campbell, all of Bradford.

Miss Donna Marie Shannon Funeral mass for Miss Donna Marie Shannon, 21, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Humboldt with the Rev. Joel Wiggs officiating. Burial will be in Highland Memorial Gardens in Jackson with Bodkin Guneral Home of Milan in charge. Miss Shannon was dead on arrival Sunday morning at Methodist Hospital in Somerville as a result of injuries sustained in an auto accident on Tennessee 57 near LaGrange.

She was a native of Honolulu, Hawaii. She was a department manager for Kisber's in Jackson. She was a member of the Catholic church. She leaves her parents, Edward Donald Shannon and Mrs. Cathleen Walker Shannon, both of Jackson; a brother, Walter Clark Harrison Jr.

of Gainesville, a sister, Ms. Deborah L. Binder of Miller Park, her grandmother, Mrs. Flossie Irene Shannon of Milan. Rosary will be said at 7 p.m.

Tuesday at Bodkin Funeral Home. Visitation will be after 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Bobby Wilson GLEASON Bobby Wilson of Gleason died early today at Volunteer General Hospital in Martin after a short illness. Arrangements are incomplete with Gallimore Funeral Home in charge.

Mrs. Esther W. Crumby Services for Mrs. Esther Willoughby Crumby, 94, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the chapel of Lawrence-Sorensen Funeral Home with Dr.

William Mullins and the Revs. Gordon Henderson and Billy M. Vaughn officiating. Burial will be in Big Springs Cemetery near Pinson. Mrs.

Crumby, widow of Henry Alfred Crumby, who died in 1955, died early Sunday at Royal Care Nursng Home after a short illness, She was born in Hardin County, daughter of the late S. W. and Emily Polk Willoughby, moving with her family to Madison County as a child. She attended local schools. She was a member of St.

Andrew United Methodist Church, the Service Seekers Sunday School class, and was a local and district officer in the United Methodist Women organization. She was a member of the American War Mothers. She leaves a son, Harold A. Crumby of Jackson; three daughters, Mrs. Ruby Irving and Mrs.

Martha Murphey, both of Jackson, and Mrs. Eunice Latimer of Carruthersville, four sisters, Mrs. Edna Haltom, Miss Trixie Willoughby, Miss Myrtle Willoughby and Miss Maurine Willoughby, all of Jackson; four grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Pallbearers will be Clyde Freeman, Lowell King, Henry Cambron, Bill Leftwich, Marion Lane and Paul Sutherland. The family requests that memorials be made to St.

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