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4 A The Jackson Sun. Jackson, Saturday, Dec. 16, 1989 Commissioners delay on 'agri-plex' How you can help Crockett County seeks estimates on building for fed farm agencies The Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Farmers Home Administration and Soil Conservation Service have asked for bids on providing them 5,180 square feet of office space by summer 1990. Randy Camp, county attorney mates for a structure of brick veneer with a shingle roof. A design by Memphis architect A.

Louis Ertz Jr. would provide 5,180 square feet for agriculture offices, plus a auditorium and room for the county extension agents and storage of county records, said Cecil Hart, chairman of the committee. The Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Farmers Home Administration and Soil Conservation Service have asked for bids on providing them 5,180 square feet of office space by sum- The Brighter Christmas Fund is a non-profit organization sponsored by The Jack-son Sun to collect food and other ne- cessities for the poor during the holidays. The fund also is used for emergency needs year-round. The stories featuring families for the fund are true, although some families prefer to remain anonymous.

(See story on 3A. Here's how to help: Readers may send cash contributions by check or money orders made payable to the Brighter Christmas Fund, in care of Union Planters National Bank. P.O. Box 189. Jackson.

Tenn. 38302. Monetary donations, which are tax-deductible, are held in a trust account at the bank until used to help needy families referred to the fund by social service agencies. Canned goods or other non-perishable food items may be left at Golden Years Service Activity Center, 125 Allen and West Madison Senior Citizens Center. 806 Huntersville-Denmark Road.

The food will be put in baskets and delivered before Christmas. Toys, food and clothes may be left at Cablevision Industries, 2177 Christmasville Road; Curtis Mathes Home En mer 1990, said Randy Camp, county attorney. To have a bid ready for the Wednesday deadline, the building committee has been scrambling throughout December, said Hart. Friday's full commission meeting was recessed and will recon Alberta Johnson Jackson Services for Alberta Johnson Jackson, 56, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Deliverance House of Prayer.

Burial will be in Bethlehem No. 2 Church Cemetery. Mrs. Jackson, a retired beautician, died Thursday morning at Jackson-Madison County General Hosptial. She was married to the late James Jackson Jr." They had five children.

James Earl Jackson, Dwight Jackson. Constance Jackson and Jacquelyn Jackson, all of Jackson, and Mrs. Jessie Henton of Muskogee, Okla. For more information, call Mercer Brothers Funeral Home at 423-4922. Joshua Hill Services for Joshua Hill, 91, will be at 2 p.m.

Sunday at Bascom CME Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Hill, a retired grave digger, died Monday afternoon at HCA Regional Hospital of Jackson. He was married to the late lona Hill.

They had three children, Brunie Comer and Willie Hill, both of Jackson, and Joshua Hill Jr. of Rockford, 111. For more information, call Mercer Brothers Funeral Home at 423-4922. Ernest Fiedler BROWNSVILLE Ernest Fiedler, 73, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Browns-, ville Funeral Home.

Burial will be in Brownsville Memorial Gardens. Mr. Fielder, supervisor of Pure died Thursday night at his home. He was married to Johanna Helen Moodrey Fielder. They had a son, Ernest "Butch" Michael Fielder of Brownsville.

For more information, call the funeral home at 772-1551 Homeowners return to ransacked house By Courtnay Weaver Sun reporter The only thing that thieves left Jiehind on a Nov. 14 burglary was -a ransacked house. Tne then, at a Jiome on Wiley Parker Road, involved a large amount of jewelry and other valuable items. The Crime Stoppers cash-for-tips program is featuring crime toppe tertainment Center. 1341 Highland mart department store, 732 Old Hickory Blvd.

and Po Folks Restaurant, 2336 N. Highland Ave. Memorials and gifts may be made to "The Loving Tree." which is in the West Tower lobby of Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Gifts may be made payable to the fund for the Loving Tree and sent to the Public Relations Department, 708 Forest Jackson. Tenn.

38301. For more information about the fund and how to help families featured, call the agencies listed in the stories: The Opportunity Club of Greater Jackson Churches Fund for Emergency Relief, 423-0791. The Care Center. 427-2273; Elderly Case Management, 989-5111 or toll-free (800 372-6013; Exchange Club-Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse, 424-7900; Madison County Department of Human Services. Southwest Human Resource Agency homeless office, 427-3055; and Work Initiatives, 427-9397.

For more information, call The Sun's Yes Desk at 427-3333. From outside Madison County, call toll-free (800 372-3922. New contributors Beth Marbury's fifth-grade class at Lincoln Elementary School. $50: Walter Barnes, $50; L.O. Nance.

$10: Herman Smith, $25: April Bailey, $15; Loyce Pearce, $75; Hopewell Baptist Women, $25; anonymous. $310. Total: $13,702.85 Goal: $25,000 rings, a set of women's wedding rings, a dinner ring, a woman's tennis bracelet, three silver bracelets, a silver necklace with pendant, a diamond pendant with chain, a collection of figurines, a Western hat with bird emblem, a 19-inch Zenith television set, a silver serving set, five antique cobalt covered dishes, a Ruger gun with scope, a Zenith stereo system, a Sharp cal culator, binoculars, a Zenith video camera, alligator boots and five pairs of Polo and Bugle brand dress pants. The value of the stolen items was more than $6,000. Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information about this crime.

If you have information about the burglary, call Crime Stoppers at 424-8477 said Assistant U.S. Attorney Carroll Andre. Veleff, 57. was arrested Nov. 29 by FBI agents on racketeering and extortion charges.

Authorities say he planned to kidnap Bass and hold him for a $5 million ransom. The alleged plot was to include a videotaped appeal from Bass to his family and a complex payoff arrangement in which the ransom would be dropped from a plane onto the side of a mountain in Mexico. Veleff, a former newspaper advertising salesman from the Memphis suburb of Germantown, had been unemployed since the summer During Peeler's absence, stooksberry had the vehicles moved from Webb's house to city property because "I figured it would be easier to get to them." He's also assigned city mechanics to install roll bars on the two that run before putting them to work, he said. "The reason Mr. Webb had them at his place was, our city was tied up in business.

He wanted to (haul them back) here and went and did it not thinking that it would turn out to be a bad story," Peeler said. Webb hadn't intended to ask payment for the hauling or about 10 hours of mechanical work, he said. He wanted to do a favor for Peeler, a personal friend, and for the city, he said. But now that public attention is "making it sound like I was hiding them," Webb said he expects to present a bill to the city board for his work on Monday bar with a man who said he was from New York. The pair left the bar together, Day said, and the man told Day he wanted oral sex.

When Day refused, the man began to hit him, Day told police. By Diana Branum Sun reporter Crockett County commissioners need more information before committing to build a county 'agri-plex" building similar to Gibson County's, they decided Friday. The county is studying whether it wants to build office space and rent it to federal farm-related agencies that are planning to move out of their current offices in the Alamo post office building. The commission gave its building and site selection committee permission Friday to get cost esti Rasilvia Campbell Edwards CEDAR GROVE Services for Rasilvia Campbell Edwards, 59, will be at 3 p.m. today at Carter's Chapel.

Burial will be in Obion Chapel Cemetery. Mrs. Edwards, a homemaker, died Thursday afternoon at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. She was married to Jessie Edwards. They had seven children, Linda Trull.

Debra Sands and Jessie Wayne Edwards, all of Cedar Grove, and Char-lene Kelley, Darlene Pryor, Sheila Hil-liard and James Edwards, all of Huntington. For more information, call Dilday Funeral Home at 986-8281. Ernest Theadore Snider HENDERSON Services for Ernest Theadore Snider, 87, will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at Casey Funeral Home. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.

Mr. Snider, a retired farmer, died Friday morning at McNairy County General Hospital. He was married to Margie Tidwell Moore Snider. They had two daughters. Ruby Crowe of Enville and Amy Gage of Bethel Springs.

For more information, call the funeral home at 989-2421. Katie Evelyn Ary TRENTON Services for Katie Evelyn Ary, 77, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Shelton Funeral Home. Burial will be in Highland Memorial Gardens. Mrs.

Ary, a homemaker, died Thursday at her home. She was married to Hollis R. Ary. She had one son, Walter Hayes of Chicago. For more information, call the funeral home at 855-1621.

RECORD WHAT'S GOING ON TODAY "Breakfast with Santa," 8-11 a.m.. J.B. Young Elementary School, Bemis. Pictures taken with Santa. $2.

St. Mary's Christmas Tree Sale, 9 a.m. -6 p.m., St. Mary's Catholic School, 1665 U.S. 45 Bypass.

Dealers will offer trees for $4 a foot, wreaths for $20 and $25 and garland for $1 a foot. Proceeds will go to St. Mary's Expansion Fund. Talk to Santa, 1-3 p.m., Madison County Courthouse lawn. (427-7573) Tours of historic East Main Street homes, 5-9 p.m..

East Main Street. Sponsor: Preservation of East Main Street and Surroundings. $10. (424-2397 424-2222) "Christmas at Pickwick," 6-9 p.m.. The Circle at Pickwick Landing State Park.

Santa Claus and his elves will be in Santa Claus House at 6:30. Carolers will be from Counce First United Pentecostal Church, Free Will Baptist Church and Eureka Methodist Church. Concessions available. Admission free. "Christmas in the Village," 6-9 p.m., Casey Jones Village.

Features special dinners, storytelling and music to entertain visitors. "Cassie's Miracle," 8 p.m.. Lambuth Theatre. Genre theatrical company production. Adults, students, senior citizens and groups of 10 or more, $4.

Tickets, $5 for adults and $4 for students and senior citizens, are available from any Genre member. SUNDAY "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever," 2 and 7 p.m., Savannah Theatre. Presentation by Corinth (Miss.) Theatre Arts. Adults, children, $4. (925-7338) University of Tennessee at Martin fall semester commencement, 2 p.m., Physical Education and Convocation Center.

Speaker: Dr. Paul Douglas Blaylock, an associate with a law firm and emergency physician at Meridian Park Hospital in Portland, Ore. (587-7615) "Christmas in the Village," 6-9 p.m., Casey Jones Village. Features special dinners, storytelling and music to entertain visitors. PUBLIC AGENDA MONDAY Legislative Committee, 9:45 a.m.

Jackson-Madison County Courthouse. Property Committee, 10 a.m., first-floor courtroom of the Jackson-Madison County Courthouse. Jackson-Madison County Commission, 10:30 a.m., first-floor courtroom of the Jackson-Madison County Courthouse. Jackson-Madison County Airport Authority Board of Commissioners. 4:45 p.m., Wal-Mart building at McKel-lar Airport.

Humboldt Mayor and Board of Aldermen, 5:15 p.m.. Municipal Center. (784-2511) HOSPITAL REPORTS JACKSON General Hospital Discharged Thursday Carroll: Agnes C. Carter. Huntingdon: this burglary as its crime of the eek.

Police reported that around 3 p.m. that day, two men were seen leaving the house in a 1978 white and green Electra 225 with a Madison County license plate. Reported missing were two gold chains, a diamond cluster ring, a set of diamond wedding vene sometime Wednesday to hear the cost estimates and financing options for an agri-plex. said Hart. Gibson County built an agri-plex for similar reasons earlier this year for DEATH ELSEWHERE Jack Mahoney, stuntman-actor BREMERTON, Wash.

(AP) Jock Mahoney, perhaps Hollywood's most famous stuntman-turned-actor famed for his television roles as Tarzan, Yancy Derringer and the Range Rider, has died of an apparent stroke. He was 70. Mahoney, a resident of Poulsbo, died Thursday at Harrison Memorial Hospital where he was taken after an automobile accident two days earlier. An autopsy will be done to verify the cause of death, a routine procedure for deaths from car accidents, said Kitsap County's chief deputy coroner, Jane Jermy. Mahoney, born Jacques Mahoney in Chicago, was a tall, rugged youth who began his film career in 1945 after serving as a fighter pilot in World War II.

He did stunt work for Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck, Gene Autry and others. Autry signed him to a contract and cast him in "The Range Rider," an action-packed television series in the 1950s. Mahoney socked and tumbled his way through appearances on "The Loretta Young Show," "Rawhide," "Yancy Derringer," "Laramie" and other programs until his career began to fade in the 1960s. He is survived by his wife. Autumn (Patricia) Mahoney.

SAVANNAH Hardin County General Hospital i Admitted Friday: James Arnold, Blanche Harmon, Nora Falls, Ellis Neill, Artie Ganus, Savannah. SELMER Mcnairy county General Hospital Admitted Thursday: Marcia Lacy, Selmer; Melvin Hubanks, Bethel Springs; Gregory Martin, Stantonville. Admitted Friday: Harriet Rouse, Finger; Shirley Wright, George Kyle. Selmer; Raymond Deming, L.G. Mathis, Hornsby.

TRENTON Gibson General Hospital Admitted Friday: Sam Vaughn. Humboldt. Forum Hospital Admitted Friday: Joe Stanley Trenton. BIRTHS JACKSON General Hospital Thursday Keith and Doris McLemore, Medina, girl; James and Janet Doles, Jackson, girl; Robert and Karen Carnell, Henderson, boy; William and Debra Matthews, Humboldt, boy; Hubert and Vanessa Grimes, Jackson, boy POLICE BLOTTER These reports were on file Friday with the Jackson Police Department and the Madison County Sheriff's Department. Thefts and burglaries Verble Boyd of 342 Main Apt 6, $200 worth of assorted clothing and shoes.

Thomas H. Ward of Route 1, Box 96, Henderson, a $350 gold Chester County high school ring. Teresa Trice of 126 Daugherty, $798 cash. Mildred Kennedy of 201 Griffin, a $249 Memorex videocassette recorder and a $99 Nintendo action set. Fred Medows of 711 Ozess Road, $160 cash, a $320 12-gauge automatic shotgun and case, a $25 tan hunting coat, a $30 pair of tan coveralls and a $175 Homelite chainsaw Arrests Sammy N.

Johnson, 20, and Anthony Tweedy, 20, both of 416 Lambuth, and Kenneth W. Nicholson, 20, of 219 Circle Drive, possession of beer in a city park and posession of marijuana. A juvenile on possession of beer in a city park and possession of marijuana. Raymond Hall, 34, of 308 Lane, resisting arrest and outstanding arrest warrants. Death Notice Policy: The Jackson Sun provides free death notices for families in our area.

However, those desiring more than basic Information provided in the death notice may purchase a paid obituary through their funeral home or the classified advertisement department of The Sun. Suspect set free on bond; federal grand jury gets case Earnestine Watkins Turner BROWNSVILLE Services for Earnestine Watkins Turner, 54, will be at 1 p.m. today at Saint James Church of God and Christ. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mrs.

Turner, a homemaker, died Monday at Haywood Methodist Hospital. She was married to Y.Z. Turner. She had 11 children, Eugene Bell, Y.Z. Turner Curtis Turner, John Wayne Turner, James Edward Turner, Anthony Turner, Christine McFarland and Mary Lou Turner, all of Brownsville, Estella Tisdale of Stanton and Reginald Turner, of Illinois.

For more information, call Rawls Funeral Home at 772-1472. Sarce 'Snooks' Price SUGAR TREE Services for Sarce "Snooks" Price, 72, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Parham Mortuary. Burial will be in Hartley Cemetery. Mr.

Price, a retired state highway employee, died Friday morning at Bolivar Community Hospital. He had four children, Kenneth Price and David Baker, both of Sugar Tree, and Brenda Dempsey and Carolyn Price, both of Goodlettsville. For more information, call the funeral home at 847-3441. Ethel Walters BEMIS Ethel Walters, 80, died Friday at Methodist Central Hospital in Memphis. She was married to the late Herbert Walters.

For more information, call George A. Smith and Sons' South Chapel at 423-2212 Bennie W. Nanney. McKenzie. Chester: Verdie J.

Anderson, Teresa F. Colbert, both of Henderson; Donald G. Archer, Payton L. Faulkner. Wendy J.

Faulkner, all of Finger. Crockett: Rickey G. Ervin, Miller, both of Bells. Decatur: John K. Yarbro.

Decatur-ville. Dyer: Shirley Crawford, Milton E. Magee John T. Rundles, Peggy L. Thrasher, all of Dyersburg.

Gibson: William E. Gordon, Gibson; Georgia M. Rogers, Bradford; Glynn T. Simmons. Humboldt; Bertha M.

Steele. Trenton. Hardeman: Marcus L. Haddix. Midd-leton.

Hardin: Jimmie L. Franks, Savannah. Henderson: Kenneth W. Connally. Peggy S.

Moffitt, both of Lexington; Curtis L. Jones, Luray: Letha L. Lewis. Wildersville. Henry: W.

D. Foy, Fred L. Hopper, both of Paris; L. T. Tilley, Springville.

Madison: Maxine V. Bethune, Nita A. Bratschi, Angela F. Brooks, Angela L. Jones, Freda Y.

Kinnie, Nancy C. Lever-nier. Vernell M. Littrell. Ashley J.

Taylor, all of Jackson. Obion: Johnny F. Bruff, Union City. Out of State: Ruth A. Hamlin, Fulton.

Ky. Weakley: Robert L. Scott. Billy Weaver both of Dresden. Discharges Friday Benton: Jack L.

Sanders, Camden. Carroll: Grover Ellis, McKenzie; Francis Jones, McLemoresville; She-drick McCauley, Huntingdon; Ada McMackin, Hollow Rock. Chester: Bruce H. Hatch, Pansy M. Westbrook, both of Henderson; Dorothy L.

Parker, Enville. Crockett: Louis Cox, Jacqueline Peoples, both of Alamo; James W. Gourley, Friendship; Bradley D. Matthews, Debra K. Matthews, both of Humboldt.

Decatur: Melinda E. Hays, Decatur-ville; Donna T. Pope, Bath Springs. Dyer: Elbert Markham, Dyersburg; John D. Stephens, Friendship.

Gibson: George H. Doaks, James A. Williams, both of Trenton; Kimmy L. Henson, Milan; Jerry R. Stavely, Humboldt.

Haywood: James L. Bourne, Charles L. Tims, both of Brownsville; Satoria O. Dickerson, Bolivar. Henderson: Wilburn R.

Powers, Wildersville. Henry: Mary W. Giles, Allen Lan-drum, Maude C. Welch, all of Paris. Madison: William L.

Allea, Jared H. Bishop, Meintwon S. Cole, Lenita M. Collier, Nancy C. Dowdy, Robert L.

Graham, Major M. Grimes, Vanessa L. Grimes, Mary C. Hines, Jimmy R. Hudson, Connie D.

Hunt, Charles E. Key. Kerri E. Laman, Johnnie T. Loyens, Judy I.

Malone, Laura K. Melson, Geoge W. Melton, Mary C. Pulliam, Gertie M. Quinn, Lottie H.

Replogle, John D. Schaffer, Booker T. Scott, George W. Scott, Janis A. Stovall, Stephen C.

Sto-vall, Carey L. Thomas, Mary K. Utley, all of Jackson; Lisa L. Epperson, Medina; Lofton H. Goodman, Mercer.

McNairy: Ella M. Joyce, Ramer; Gar-rey T. Plunk, Teresa S. Plunk, both of Bethel Springs. MEMPHIS (API -The man accused of plotting to kidnap Texas businessman Robert Bass has released on bond and ordered to stay in West Tennessee while a federal grand jury considers the case.

Austin James Veleff appeared before U.S. Magistrate James Allen on Thursday and was released on $25,000 bond. His case goes before the grand jury next week. Restrictions on Veleff while he is on bond require him to check in with authorities once a week and forbid him from having any contact with witnesses in the case. Mayor's 'bargain' buy queried Obion: Louis L.

Arnn, Daniel R. Coleman, both of Union City. Weakley: Hulon R. Capps, Greenfield. HCA Regional Hospital Discharged Thursday: Peggye Bryant.

Bolivar; Burley Cunningham, Jim Douglas, Lue T. Stewart, Andrew Montgomery, all of Brownsville; Elbridge Gla-dish, Selmer: Earl Hall. Newbern: Daisy James. Lexington; Rachel Key-mon. Savannah; Anthony Pickard, Trenton; Lonnie Seamon, Camden Edgar Singleton, Andrea Stepp, both of Paris; Ray Woodson, Gasden; David Patrick, Mercer; Isaac H.

Read Fulton, Ky; Ann Hazelwood. Martin; billy Arnold. Holladay: Tracie L. White, Reagan. Discharges Friday Martha Bobbitt, Pamela S.

Magee, both of Trenton; Paul D. Chandler, Bath Springs; Betty J. Edgin, Scotts Hill; Alfred Brown, Judy A. Sells, Dorothy Ramsey, Pearl Lawson, Monica L. Bar-cio, Frank Ward, all of Jackson; Cheryl L.

Sears, Big Sandy; Mary E. Pirtle. Jean P. Sipes, both of Bolivar. BROWNSVILLE Methodist Haywood Park General Hospital Admitted Thursday: Madeline Windrow, Dorothy Delk, Annie Jackson.

Brownsville. Admitted Friday: Betty Cropper, Melinda Woolls, Brownsville. CAMDEN Benton Community Hospital Admitted Thursday: Melanie Colston. Erin. HUMBOLDT Humboldt General Hospital Admitted Friday: Robert Shivers, Teresa Lawuray, Humboldt.

HUNTINGDON Baptist Memorial Hospital-Huntingdon Admitted Thursday: Edmond Carver. McKenzie; Joseph Dube, Buena Vista. Admitted Friday: Jonah Dancer, Alvis Gross, Huntingdon; Neil Cox, Trezevant. LEXINGTON Lexington Methodist Hospital Discharged Thursday: Pamela Holmes, Melissa Russom, Lexington; Christine Kinman, Beech Bluff; Michael Bowman, Sharon. Discharged Friday: Elsie Gilbert, Darden; Johnny Bright, Ginger Priddy.

James Woods, Lexington. MARTIN HCA Volunteer General Hospital Admitted Thursday: Lisa Moss, Martin; Tony Terrell, John Barnes, Millie Stallcup, Dresden; Lee Ann Stafford, Union City. MILAN City of Milan Hospital Discharged Thursday: Thelma Hard- gett, Trezevant; Ruby Swims, Milan. Discharged Friday: Irene Rummage. H.D.

McClain, Milan. PARSONS Decatur County General Hospital Admitted Thursday: Leroy Hushing, Blanche Turner, Jessie Douglas, Parsons; Clara Mae Tucker, Decaturville. Admitted Friday: George Garrett. Parsons. From 1A find the creation of such a fund in city board minutes, but she does find approval of putting aside $2,000 for Peeler at a budget committee meeting, she said.

Alderman Larry Taylor, who was not available for comment Friday, has been quoted in Weakley County papers as questioning the existence of the mayor's fund. Peeler would like the city to use the vehicles to carry filled garbage bags for youths collecting street trash in a summer program, he said. Public works director Mike Stooksberry didn't know about the vehicles until Dec. 5, he said. But his crews can use them to move heavy water or sewer pipe across people's yards without tearing up lawns as trucks do, he said.

Jackson man reports assault A Jackson man was assaulted by a man he met in a bar Thursday night, according to police reports. Roger Day Jr. of 45 Charlotte Drive told Jackson police he had been drinking at the Crossroads I.