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Sports Bridge Column Comics Classified Ads Memphis Press -Scimitar THIRD SECTION PAGE 33 WEDNESDAY MAY 9 1973 Carnival Has Country Flavor WRECKED ON INTERSTATE This is one of four vehicles left in the wake of a traffic spree by one driver police said today A year-old child was injured Press-Sclmltpr Staff Photos by Jack Cantrell Five Injured in 4 Southaven Man Charged A BIT OF DOWN-HOME COUNTRY FUN Square dancers swung their partners last night tival next to the Fairgrounds Shelby County Building dressed to fit the occasion during the Square Dance Fes- Press-Sdmltor Staff Photoi Mississippi Voters Like Newcomers By ASSOCIATED PRESS Three major city incumbent Democratic mayors fell in primary elections across Mississippi according to late returns early today Voters in all but 13 of the 275 incorporated communities went to the polls Tuesday Mayors defeated for renomination included Philip Shaw of Gulfport Murray Sills of Vicksburg and Charles Sampson of Greenwood Another Democratic incumbent James Ballard of Tupelo was reported in satisfactory condition today after suffering a suspected heart attack He defeated Jack Shirley 3315-2464 Pascagoula Mayor Ben Briggs was last in a three-man race headed by Vincent Ros The winner takes on Republican Roberts Wilson in June Jackson Mayor Russell Davis defeated former Clark Horton a former city commissioner with 58 per cent of votes cast It was a repeat of the 1969 race in capital city State Rep Bullock and former Mayor Meadows will meet next Tuesday for a runoff in the Gulfport race Shaw finished third nearly 600 votes behind Meadows and 750 behind Bullock in the six-person race Former Vicksburg city attorney Nat Bullard defeated Sills by over 1000 votes Radio station manager Clay Ewing beat Sampson by 432 ballots in the Greenwood race Ewing has two independent opponents John Johnson and Frank Utros-ka Fulton Young Sr was a distant third in voting Chubby Ellis son of Mayor Mayo Ellis led the Columbus primary He will face James Trotter Other Democratic primary winners included Joe Nosef Clarksdale A Gerrard Hattiesburg A White-head Roxey Elmo Pritchard Gloster Mansker Flora McCormack Ridgeland Harold Lindsey Nett'leton Charles Blass Clinton Harry Baldwin Canton Paul Kemp Hazlehurst Clinton Reid Lucedale Curtis Floyd Drew Wallace Heflin Macon' Yelverton Magee Phillip Harrison Eupora Johnson Senatobia Ralph Ha-thorn Louisville Howard Stafford Pontotoc John Pennebaker New Albany Blackwell Collins Earl Robinson Wesson A McDonald Georgetown Mary Nelson Woodland White Maben Billy Glasgow Amory Maurice Cammack Sr Terry Bobby Garraway Lumberton and Martin King time to perfect playing the At the same time the Shelby County Building audience was listening to the cool flowing of the sitar just outside a more home-grown type of music was sending dancers and Men and women wove and circled to the directions a the caller said cast off Now three quarter Do the slide-in And meet that little Members of the Boll Weevils a cotton carnival secret society who dress up as giant green weevils joined the square dancers and did a turn or two with several delighted little girls Joining the fair-goers that evening were Carnival King with a puppeteer in Florida Since then been going to fairs shopping centers and all kinds of he said Also playing at the Shelby County Building was an international group program of music and dancing Israel Brazil India the Middle East Columbia and Honduras were represented One of the highlights of that show was the sitar playing of Dr Kishin Gehi a physician at Hospital Dr Gehi studied the sitar a musical instrument analogous in form but different in sound to the guitar under famous Indian musician Ravi Shankar have only been playing for four Dr Gehi said really takes a life- A driver faced multiple charges today after police said he was involved in four accidents which injured five persons one critically and caused damage to four vehicles other than his own All the incidents occurred within a 6'5-minute period police said Police charged Philip Mark Harding 43 of Southa-v Miss with driving while intoxicated three counts of failure to maintain proper control and two counts of leaving the scene of an accident Anthony Freeman year-old son of Mrs Mary Freeman 657 Wright was listed in critical condition at John Gaston Hospital with two broken legs and a crushed pelvis in connection with the series of accidents The youngster was an occupant of a car driven by Cornelius Stump 18 of the Wright address The car was struck on 1-240 just south of Cordell told fellow officers he attempted to chase truck to get a license number Rogers said truck struck the Stump vehicle which careened into car car then struck a car driven by James Simmons 51 of 1384 Mallory Police said truck continued about 700 feet past the fourth accident before running off the road and striking a fence All injuries were confined to the Stump vehicle police said and were apparently minor except for the Freeman child Other passengers in car were Mary Freeman 19 Anita Freeman 16 and Yancy Freeman age unknown Officers said all listed their address as 657 Wright Harding was scheduled to appear in Division II of City Court at 1:30 pm Monday Lamar about 4:40 pm yesterday police said Police said that after several hours of piecing together information they found Harding originally struck the rear end of a car driven by Thomas Far-less 777 Mt Moriah at Airways and Dunn about 3:35 pm Police said Harding left the scene of that accident and at 4: 20 pm struck a car at 1-240 and Jackson That car was driven by Pink Lovelace Jr 30 of 1742 El-dridge Lovelace told police he took away keys to keep him from leaving the scene of that accident But he said Harding locked himself in the cab of his pickup truck and used a spare key in his billfold to drive away Police said Harding con-continued south on the interstate and at 4: 35 pm struck the car of an off-duty policeman just north of Lamar Donald Rogers of 2850 BBHBWiHIWII William Dunavant Jr and Queen Mary Leatherman They swept in followed by numerous members of their court and pages The queen had to gather up the long train to her gown for comfortable riding on the Giant-Wheel with the king The young pages dressed in black tunics with a cotton bale patch sewn on the front swarmed into the sideshows One page commented that The Headless Woman was all right but he was looking forward to the stripper a feature at one of the secret party Jimmy Alexander who as The Mechanical Man attracts people into the House of a on the midway watched the crowns and elegant costumes of the King and queen the white tuxedos and gowns of the court and the numerous Medievally dressed pages among the regular crowd of blue jean-clad customers "Is this he asked Poll Shows Smith Ahead In Race A professional poll on next County Court election leaked showing Dr Vasco Smith out in front of the other nine candidates Among the total polled Bettye Taliaferro was running second and Tracy Rainey third But among those who intend to vote Smith was first Rainey second and Mrs Taliaferro third Marketing Consultants Inc made the poll for Deloss Walker Associates lead was commanding in both total voters polled and those who plan to vote In the first category Smith had 107 per cent of the vote Mrs Taliaferro 65 per cent and Rainey 6 per cent In the area of those who intend to vote Smith had 136 per cent Rainey 76 per cent and Mrs Taliaferro 69 per cent The poll showed 89 per cent of Negro citizens contacted intend to vote and 67 per cent of white voters Smith had 67 per cent of the black vote and David Neely 18 per cent By DAVID FLYNN Preis-Sclmitar Staff Writer get a line Pll get a pole honey You get a line get a pole Mud Dog and the Neutrons were late so Crawdad kicked off the Bluegrass show at the Cotton Art Festival with the above familiar lines from the Crawdad Song The near-capacity crowd picked up the beat and were soon stomping their feet and clapping their hands The happy noise in the Family Living Center was welcome excitement in a Carnival plagued so far with sparse attendance at Midway and many Fairground functions To boost attendance the Carnival office has announced a free ride at the fair or a free ticket to a sideshow for anyone paying the admission price of $1 for adults and 50 cents for children Those attending yesterday saw an entertaining mixture of American and International music and dancing One of the Crawdads the wash-board player Jimmy Crosswaite a to hurry over to the sUval from the Shelby County Building where he puts on a puppet show four times a day got fairy tales a circus a rock show all sorts of things children Crosswaite said Crosswaite makes all his props and characters himself started out by studying Jazz Festival Not the Same As Free Show Some people are confused says Harry Godwin coordinator of the annual Carnival Jazz and Blues Festival about when the festival is taking place The festival a three-night event begins tomorrow night and will continue Friday and Saturday nights in the Pipkin Building of the Fairgrounds Shows will begin at 7 pm Tickets are $1 The confusion arose Godwin said when the Carnival Association listed free jazz and blues shows beginning last Monday These shows are going on as scheduled but they are not connected with Festival The free show featuring River City Six is held nightly at 6 pm at the Fairgrounds To make it more confusing the River Cib' Six will play a set each night at the festival Carnival Events TODAY 8 am to 4 Carnival Pistol Matches Shelby County Penal Farm 12 Maid of Cotton Fashion Show and Luncheon Holiday Inn Rivermont 2 MLGW Division Cooking School 220 Main 4 Live Rock Concert Fairgrounds (free) 4 Specialty Tennis Tournament Leftwich Tennis Center 7 Square Dance Festival Shelby County Building outdoors the Fairgrounds 7: 15 Holiday Inn Messengers songs Fairgrounds outdoors stage near Shelby County Building (free) 7: 30 Citywide Softball Tournament Halle Field 8 Evening of Classical Memphis Arts Council series Family Living Center Fairgrounds (free) 9 Cotton Makers Jubilee Ushers and Usherettes Ball Foote Homes Auditorium 578 Mississippi ALL WEEK At Fairgrounds Carnival Photo Contest sponsored by The Press Scimitar and carnival Royal American Show midway noon to midnight Sidewalk Cafe opens noon Court Square Memphis Light Gas Water Division art show 220 Main Band concerts MLGW Building and Court Square (noon) Helicopter noon to midnight Antique Car Show Girl Scout Exhibit Boy Scouts of America All Cotton Fashion Show Tool House Museum Puppet Shows five times afternoons Shelby County Building Collects Memphis Artists for art show Family Living Building Other Locations Memphis Academy of Arts Seniors Exhibition Brooks Art Gallery Overton Washington Artists Equity Exhibition Memphis Pink Palace Scientific sketches and Leonardo da Vinci Navy Patrol Inspection and rides Yacht Club TOMORROW 8 am to 2 Cotton Makers Tour of City starting from Foote Homes Auditorium 578 Mississippi 8 Mid-South Day breakfast and Show-boat ride given by Federal Compress and Warehouse Co and Carnival Luncheon and tour of city follows 12-noon and 3 Volunteer State Athletic Conference Baseball Championship Series Field CBC 680 Parkway So 4 to 6 Cotton Makers Jubilee Royal Tea Foote Homes Auditorium 578 Mississippi DRIVER FACES CHARGES Police said this vehicle driven by Philip Mark Harding of Southaven Miss careened off the interstate after colliding with the car above Police Force Gains Cited by Hubbard so overburdened1 there has By JIM WILLIS Prss-5clmUor Stall Writer Memphis is five years behind most large cities in law enforcement according to Police director Jay Hubbard catching up quickly and have the potential of having a model department in this Hubbard said last night at Memphis State University as the final lecturer in this Seidman Memorial Lecture Series on Crime and Justice Hubbard said Memphis is an ideal location to establish a model police program be- cause of the economic power past few months" he said I fall away from the union idea for law enforcement for the same reason I favor unions in the Air Force or the Marine Corps It just rings a sour note with me and 1 think this feeling is shared by a lot of police Hubbard said Missiles to Libya PARIS (11 PI) -France has sold surface-to-surface missiles with a range of four miles to Libya for mounting on three rapid launchers built by Britain for the Libyan navy been no room for bold innovation in the past stretched thin already but with additional funds getting we should be able to move rapidly he said Hubbard told1 the group he felt unionization in the police department had been brought on by new leader-ship a communications breakdown and the fact the department was undermanned and overworked "An organization can aland only so much change in a time span and we have saturated that level in the Sheet Thieves GREENVILLE -(UP1) persons including a security guard at the Stevens plant in Taylors have been arrested on charges of stealing a truck containing $55000 in sheets and pillowcases from the plant last month past five years Memphis has grown by 20 per cent in population and 33 per cent in geographical size Hubbard said there has been only a 1 per cent increase in police officers over the same period department has been of the community the backing of citizens through a strong feeling for law and order and a good1 supply of young people as potential police officers Noting that during the Contract for Model Community at Penal Farm Nearly Ready By ROY HAMILTON Prm-Sclmltar Stall Wriiar Shelby County negotiators are close to an agreement with the Rousc-Boyle combine on a contract to develop the proposed Shelby I a i ins model community Squire John Maxwell reported today Maxwell County Court's representative on the negotiating team said the proposed contract is "almost to present to the Shelby Farms Development Board "We are working on our 11th or 12th draft" said Maxwell are Just about to an agreement" The contract is subject 1o tho approval of the board county court and county commission Tho document said Max well spells out in detail tho terms by which the Rouse Corp Boyle Investment Co and First National Bank would buy and develop the Penal Farm site The county earlier this year endorsed "In principle" a plan of development offered by the consortium The three firms would purchase about 2800 acres of Penal Farm land for the model community and assist the county In developing park on the remaining 2(MH) acres Maxwell a member of the development hoard said the contract "dors not depart from the original proposal simply gets down to the nuts ami bolts of what the Intentions are It provides everything from tho form of development to tho mechan cility providing a suitable site can be found The board passed a resolution that it would recommend a site off the penal farm by July 1 or make 50 acres of Penal Farm land available for the prison Rouse is opposed to having the prison near tho planned community Maxwell said several possible locations are under study seems to be plenty of sites uround" he added While he did not disclose where they are it was learned that the old Pace Corp plant on Highway til near the state line Is among those being considered The board reportedly is also looking at land in tho Millington area Including the old powder plunt site west of Highway 51 figures have been mentioned in the contract talks Previous estimates of the worth have ranged from $12 million to $30 million for the 2900 acres County Attorney Cleveland (Cleve) Drennon and Robert McCullough administrative assistant to County Commissioner Lee Hyden have also been participating in the discussions with Rouse-Boyle executives Hyden is executive director of the board The board is in the process of finding a site to recommend to State Corrections Commissioner Mark Luttrell for a proposed new state-operated regional jail to replace the county penal institution The Legislature recently authorized $4 million for planning and first year construction costs for the fa ics of arriving at a purchase price to what the duties the county will have We have tried to put in everything wo can think of on the front end" If the contract Is approved and executed It would probably be tho summer of 1974 before construction could begin said Maxwell "Work Is not going to begin until a number of things happen Including arriving at a purchase price" he said The propose! provides for the purchaser to pay a fair market price for the proper-t The value would he determined by two appraisers one appointed by each side a if they 'full to agree they would select a range of housing styles and prices schools parks shopping and other facilities The regional park which would serve the entire county would be the biggest in this area as big as Over-ton Park Riverside McKel-lar Audubon and Kennedy parks combined Maxwell said1 the Park Commission has indicated an interest in keeping the entire 5000 acres for a park with the possibility of relocating the zoo there at some future date "To me the idea of leaving the entire Penal Farm as a park is not economically feasible" he said The cost of maintaining a park that site would be Maxwell said that no price third nppraiser to resolve the conflict The property would also have to be surveyed a major job considering its size and there Is a further stipulation thut a master plan of development including construction timetable for tho entire project must have prior approval Maxwell said "This plan is built into tho contract" he said "They have given us a preliminary plan of development" The combine would develop an enclosed shopping mull and sell improved land In the community to local builders to develop according to the overall plan Maxwell said First role is financing and Boyle mid Rouse would handle the development Rouse developed the nationally known model city of Columbia Md Maxwell said county officials have been "setting some fink" from local developers who want a bigger piece of the action "They say the county could get more money by selling the land piecemeal" he said "My response has been is that I believe this would result in the type of development we would he happy with I also think the county ought to be in development business" As envisioned hy Rouse Shelby Farms would he a completely self contained community of nbout 26000 persons Including a wide.