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It Happened In M1ssiss1ppi Fatal Shooting COLUMBUS - Columbus pol ice are investigating the fat.il , hooting o! a 16-year old boy w ho died while playing with an older brother's 38 caliber pistol. Officers say the victim. Sandy Lindsey, was dead when they arr ived at his mother's home in Columbus late yesterday. An unidentilied friend who witnessed the shooting reported it to pollce. Officers say Lindsey died of a head wound. A coroner's jur,v and police are investigating the shooting.
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Wilson Funeral LAUREL - Funeral services were held today :for 75-year-old J . M. Wiu;on, prominent Laurel businessman and father of ~olf champion Spec Wilson. Wilson, who operated a farm and garden supply firm at Laurel, d ied of a heart attack ]ate Mond ay n ight. His son is the Stat,.,·s ,amateur golf champion.
Costly Fire CRYSTAL SPRINGS - Fire of undetermined orgin has swept through a large box: manufacturing pl ant at Crystal Springs. Damage has been estimated at $150, 000. OfOcers ssy the J\fagnolia Box and Crate Company was destroyed with the exception of one dryin~ shed in the pre-dawn blaze t oday,
Pilot Identified J>INOLA - The Air Force has identified a jet pilot killed in a crash near Pinola last night as Col. Cy Wilson of Turner Air Force Base near Albany, Ga. Wilson comman6ed the 508th Strategic Fifth Wing at Turner. In 1953 he was second-in-comm and of a historic flight of 20 j ets from Georgia to England non.stop, refueling in the air.
Student Held In Shooting Intruder Is Killed By Young Bridegroom COLUMBIA, Mi s., Dec. 29 (UP) -A young college student today :,hot and killed his bride's former husband who tried to enter their living quarters, apparently unaw are that she had chosen a new mate. Dist. Atty. Vernon Broom said the student, 23-year-old James W. Yar borough, was released from jail without being charged in the death of Jack Lott, 48-year-old meat cutter. His bride, Mrs. Kathleen Yarborough, was hospitalized with shock. Broom said Lott came to the beauty shop Mrs. Yarborough operated shor tly after midnight, accompanied by a !our-year~ ld son born one year before the couple separated. Met at the door by Mrs. Yarborough, Broom said, Lott forced his way in with a knife and was :shot by Yarbor ough with a .38 caliber pistol. Officers said Lott apparently did not know that hls former wife had m arried Yarborough, a student at 'Iisslsslppi Southern College. on Christmas Day.
West Germa n Entry Into NATO Receives Stomp Of Approval
Cash Recovered That Old Game Of Politics Three Hours Ready To Take Spotlight Way Bemg Cleared For Campaigning In Lee; Highway Commissioner Adams Seeks Reelection After· HOId.Up Gun-Waving Thugs Hit Small Bank In Flowood Community
NEW P RESID ENT-M. Paul Haynes is llie newly elected president or the Baldwyn Chamber of Commerce. Other officers in the coming year will be Horace Caver, vice president, and Grady Nanney, secretary-treasurer. C. V. Grisham is the retiring president. -Photo by Norman Studio,
WhiteIssues Session Ca II Municipal Relief On State's Agenda J CKSO , 1iss., Dec. 29 (UP)Gov. Hugh W11ite today formally summoned legislators to meet in special session Jan. 11 to enact an am bilious school building program, adopt three ne II con tltutionaJ amendments and provide financial relief fo'r mumcipalities. White's call was mailed this afternoon to members of the House and Senate. The session, condltloned on passage oI the amendment to abolish public schools, will begin at 12 o'clock noon . Most observers predict lhe session will last from six weeks to two months. Legislators will be asked to lnsert the 3:bol)tion amendment into the Constitution and adopt two oher amendments ratified in November special elecions. The abolition proposal , approved by voters Dec. 21, would authorize the .Legislature to close public schools on a two U,irds majority vote in each house. Local. districts could be abolisbed by simple legislative majorities. Attempts to put provisions of the amendment into effect during the special session, White said, would be "useless." No one. he added, is concerned with abolishing public schools now as a way of maintaining segregation. The other amendments would strengthen voter qualifications, requiring each elector to submit written applications showing bis ability to read, write, understand and interpret any section oi the Constitution and authorize the issuance of preferred stock without voting rights. White included in hls call requests for "appropriate legislation" to provide "maintenance, operation and improvement of the state's public schools." The governor said the Legal Education Advi11ory Committee, given the task of draftlng a program of school building, will meet next Wednesday {o prepare its recommendations to the Legislature. The finance subcommi ttee of the advisory group, headed by Sen. Earl Evans or Canton, will meet Tuesday to report on proposed tax increases to finance the 117 million dollar program designed lo provlde equal school facilities for Negro and white pupils. Evans' group is expected to recommend a one per cent increase in the state's two per cent sales tax and a one cent hike in the four cent tobacco tax to finance the bnildiag program.
FLOWOOD , Miss., Dec. 29 (UP) -Two bandits. one barking orders and threats while his nervous sidekick stood by, today robbed a bank of $32.000 but sunendered meekly to a couple of highway patrolmen less than three hours later. The patrolmen captured the slender bandits after a short chase about 50 miles southeast of this small manufacturing community of 200 population near Jackson . OIIicers identUied t h e holdup men as Robert Ford Westbrook, about 30, of near Forest, Miss., and Welborn Dent, 22, of Evergreen, Ala. R. H. Broome, the assistant manager of th.i Pearl branch of the Bank of Rank:n County, said the holdup was set up by a request to change a dollar into dimes. Westbrook. Broome said , walked into the bank about 10 :30 a.m.,and asked for the dimes, then rettu·ned a few moments later with Dent at his side. Dent was described as " nervou s and silent" during the four-minute stickup that brought officer swarming into the area. Westbrook waved a nickle plated revolver in lhe laces ol Broome and teller J . C. Flowers, and told them: " This is a holdup. If you try anything I'll kill you." He repeated hls warning several times and ordered them to the rear of the small bank. Patrolmen Jack Anderson -and Earl Pickering found the loot. all bills of srrrall denomffiatton , tuffed in a paper sack and a cardboard box when Westbrook and Dent pulled their late model Cadillac over to the shoulder of a highway south of Bay Springs, Miss. Westbrook swapped questions with peace officers who identified him as the gunman and Dent as bis (Continued On Page 61
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Electrical Devices Will Nab Violators A warning against speeding ln the city limits was sounded Wednesday by Tupelo Police Chief Robert H. Monahan who s aid the department w ould ibegin· utilizing the electrical speed time machine Thursday at the approaches into the city. Signs have been placed at each of the entrances and the Chief said patrol cars would be operating at anyone of them Thursday. Purchase of the speed device was ordered at a meeting of the Tupelo Board of Aldermen November 3 to discourage speeding. The device is electrically operated and instantly records the speed of an automobile on a metPr in the police car. The machine i s activated when a car passes over two cables stretched across the road. Upon crossing the second catle further down the road the car's speed is automatically recorded. In ordering the device the aldermen stipulated that the TupPlo police department operate it in a manner d esigned to encourage observance of proper speed lim-
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The board emphasized that it wanted nothing in the way of a speed trap to' come from the electric timing device, and Chief Monaghan said there would be plenty of warning to motorists. The Chief said some warning tickets may be given out but that excessive speeders would re· ceive an on-the-spot ticket for violations. The device will be in operation at Jackson Street, Highway 45 and South, Highway 6 East goods dealers, will close at 8 p.m. North and West and Highway 78 near Saturdays. Flowerdale and near East Tupelo. The grocerymen agreed to exchange information on shoplifters in an effort to detect persons known to be engaged in this kind of thievery. TOMPKINSVILLE, Ky., Dec. A spokesman for th.! grocers said "shoplifting in Tupelo is 29, (U.P.) -Dr. J. M. Hill, brother o:f Ned Hill, of Tupelo, Miss., died getting worse every day." The grocerymen are also plan- here today of heart attack. Funning to make the campaign a- eral services are incomplete. gainst shoplifting a city • wide project. One of the ideas being considered is a campaign to b~ worked through the merchants' commitNortheast Mississippi- 'l'hursday tee of the Community Develop- fair and cold . Northwesterly winds ment Foundation whereby stan- decreasing Thursday. dard rewards would be offered Northwest Mississippi-Fair and to persons who report shoplifters cold Thursday. Northwesterly wind to store owners. decreasing Thursday.
Drive Against Shoplifters
Tupelo grocerymen, who met Wednesday to establish new store hours, also l aid the groundwork :for an or ganized businessman campaign against a wave of shoplifting in t he city. The grocerymen announced that t he Thursday night shopping hours will be discontinued effective Jan. 26. Most of t he grocery stores will close at 6 p.m. on a Monday to Friday basis. However, stores located in residential areas will remain open until 7 p.m. on week days. On Saturd ays the grocery stores p lan t o r emain open after 8 p .m. T his was established to allow persons work ing in downtown stores to do their shopping after Saturday night closing hours. The d owntown atorcs. such a s soft
Full United Press Leased Wire
Communist Foes Force Delay Of Crucial Ballot
State Patrol Nabs Bandits After$32,000BankRobbery
Grocerymen Agree To Open. \
Member Audit Bureau of Circulations
French Postpone Decision On earmamen
Candidates JACKSON Seven Mis:,i:;sippians have been nominated as cand idates by a patronage group to fill a vacancy on the Fifth United States Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. E . o. Spenser, chairman of tbe Mississippi Citizens for Eisenhower disclosed that the group had picked the candidates for a successor to Judge Edwin Holm es oL Yazoo City, who is retir ing. Nominated by the patronnge group were Federal Judge Allen Cox of the North Mississippi District F ederal Judge Sidney Mize of South Mississippi, State Supr eme Court Justice Lee Hall, Circuit Jud re M. M. McGowan c,f Jackson. Attorney Ben CamefJn B r ando!). of Natchez. and Attorney M. M. R oberts of Hattiesburg,
Tupelo, Mississippi, Thursday Morning, December 30, 1954.
Brother Of Tupeloan Succumbs In Kentucky
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Northeast Mississijji's favorite conversational and spectator game -one that becomes intensely popular every four years-will stad edging into the news spotlignt after Jan. 1 That game ill politics. And it's expected that announcements of candidacies for county, district and area offices will start popping out of circuit clerk's offici? before the New Year is very old. The first primary election this year comes as early as it pOSiibly can. The first election is on Tuesday, Aug. 2. Every Mississippi elective officer-from governor down lo constables-will be elected for four year terms in the August voting. Only exceptions are the judges and Congressmen. The Journal Area is again expected to have several candi-
P RIS, Thurs.• Dec. 30 (UP1France po tponed the ' ' agonizing" decision on approvi ng German rearmament for 24 hours Weclnesday night. but early today the ational Assembly put its Iim1l stamp of approval on German entry' into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Communists and other foes or a rearmed GerJ1lany forced postponement of the crucial vote on tile Western European Union. whiclt actualJy provides for German rearmament. Premier Pierre Mendes France fought to block the postponement, but he was unsuccessful. Official of the s embly, who make up U,e Bureau of the s embly, voted to postpone lhe WEU vote until 5 p.m. today (11 a .m. EST >. Communist members of the A"'· sembly rushed news of the postponement to Red demonstrators outside the Assembly hall. The d<'monstra tors immediately burst into the "Marseillaise," France's national anthem . Mendes-France had sta1<ed the life of his government on both the WEU vote and the vote on German entry into TO, which actually was the ratification bill as a whole. NATO entry and the other provisions of the ratification bill had been approved article by article on Monday. Today's vote was on the bill as a whole. German entry into NATO was its most important provision. The ratification blll also provide!I that all the Paris agreements will have to be ratified by all the countries concerned at the same tim~. After thelr victory in winning a postponement of the import.ant WEU vote, the Communists tried to postpone the second confidence vote on the grounds that approval of WEU should come after the vo of ATO. Mendes-Franci-, who h d glumly notr• , t , J' ,·:;t po '>(}.,rtne nt. , ~· r, 1 h, , .t, and ,oke i11 a brokP YOi.:e: "I ask thE' ssembly to vote n'l,v (on the second confidence que~lion ), and not to postpone fu.rthel' U1ese problems in view of internaLional opinion," he sald. The deputies then decided to vote on the overall ratification bill, which included German entry into NATO and the other articles al• ready ratified separately. It was the WEU which the A'!I• sembly rejected last Friday. Men• des - France called on the Assembly to reverse its decision, staking his government on the vote which had been expected \Vednesday, Mendes-France !ought to block the postponement, but he was unsuccessful. Glumly, he announced lliat the WEU vote would be put off until tomorrow. Mendes-France . made a dramatic last-minute appeal to the National Assembly before the Bureau made ils recommendation for a postponement. The determined Premier urged Ute deputies to approve the "agon• izing" decision to n;arm Germany even though it has been only ten years since France ''so sufferPd with fiesh and blood" at the hands of u,e Nazi . Mendes-France earlier had mapaged to defeat one move to prevent or delay the final votes. Rightist independent Francoi.i Quilici challenged the minutes o! (Continued On P a ge 61
dates for state and regional offices. They include Sen. J. 0 . Clark of Iuka. reported planning to ruri for lieutenant governor; Dougla~ Shands of Tupelo and Rubel L. Phillips of Corinth, anticipated candidates for public service commissioner of the northern district; and Roy C. Adam of TupBALDWYN 1S MAN OF THE YEA R-M. Gorden, prominent merelo who will seek re-election to a third term as northern district chant, has been elected "Man of the Year" in Baldwyn for 1954. Ile is shown with bis wife and th ir son, Bill, who is a medical student highway commissioner. A regional race that is expect- at Vanderbilt Univer ity. Mr. Gordon will be honored at a banquet ed to hold considerable intere~t to be given in January by the Baldwyn groups that made the selecin the 1955 campaigning is the tion , the ChambeL· of Commerce, Lions Club and Business and Procompetition for the office of district attorney in the First Circ1,it fessional Women's Club. M1:. and Mrs. Go1·den came to Baldwyn in 1933 from Coffeeville. -Photo by Norman Studio. Court District. This office is currenlly held by W. P. Mitchell of Tupelo, who was elecled in 1951 without opposition. In 1955, Mr. Mitchell is expected tp have opposition. One of his opponent will be Byron Long, Jr., Tupelo . attorney who is currently floterial represPntalive !or Lee and Itawamba counLAUREL, Miss., Dec. 29 (UP)- two children were injured when ties. a fr e a k tornado lhat ripped the tornado lifted their home from Pre-campaigning speculation in throug}1 a residential area Tuesday lts foundation and d molished it. Lee County has centered around night did damage estimated today 11other new $30,000 home was unthe prospective candidates for at 100,000 and two persons were rnoied and heavy rains that folthe sheri!f's office. Sheriff Mikh hospitaUzed with injuries. lowed lhe twister ruined ils furnGrissom cannot succeed him~e.Jf More than a dozen homes were ishings. I and as many as seven persons damaged by the twister and falli ng Jordan II aid his home was have been mentioned as prospP.c- trees. Two dwellings . were splin- "picked up and tumed around, then live candidate for this office. tered as the funn~l s.k1pped acro~s carried away" by the tornado that The procedure for qualifyin~ ~ 12-.bloc:k area, r!pprng d<!w~ u~I- moved across the northwest porFULTON (Special) - Services for candidacy leads through the 1ty hnes and tossmg debris m its tion of the city earlt Tuesday night. Ior Willie Bryan Senter, 35, who office of circuit clerk, w here can- wake. Police Chief Ellzey Drennan toJordan and his two children and was fatall y injured in an auto- didates must sign affidavits in mobile accident at noon Tuesdav regard to the state's corrupt prac- day termed the damage " exten- anotl1er couple were treated for near here, will be held at 2·3°0 lice act and the non-subversive s.ivc" but said the city ,";"as ''prac- slight injul'ies at hospitals and the tically back lo no1·mal. . Red Cross reported today it had p.m. today in the Mt. Plea,aut pledge. . !'fr~. Dan Jordari, sµffenng bead t1 • ated 14 other per ons for minor Baptist church loca.tc.d near the Th<! < d~, t J.o (lualif} 1nJu~1 . ,1 . llo ~. and ~ · ,lu,•,c·... M . ernon commumty o "!ta- I with the secretary of the Demo- Ellzey. suffering a chest rn)ury, A Laurd National Guard com , wamba County where he Was cratic Executive Committees in were hospitalized [or treatment. pany, city workers and volunte rs reared. their counties. Tn Lee County atMrs. Jordan, her husband and moved in to clear the shambles Tbe Rev. Eugene Digby and th torney Robert McNutt is secretary • • • from rive or six side streets today Rev. D. R. Raper will of!iciat . of tile p a rty committee. but Drennan s a i d all· through Burial will be in the adjoining The Lee County Democt·atic slreels were cleared Tuesday night cemetery with Senter Funeral committee has recommended spliL Utility service was restored early Home in charge. ting of the big No1·th Tupelo pretoday. Electric repair crews were Two other persons in the car cinct into four boxes to speed up called in from nearby Meridian with Mr. Senter were fojured. the counting votes. Members of and Hattiesburg. They are his son, Jimmy Wayne the board or supervisors indicated Six homes were t" isted on their ~enter, 14, a nd bis brother, Jun- agreement with this proposal. foundations , porches were stripped 1or Senter of the Mt. Ve1·non comThe North Tupelo precinct as • from a half dozen more and roofs munity. presently constituted is div ded were blown from three or !om· Their automobile, going north into two iboxes The counting of more. A large b·ee, one of more than a score uprooted, crashed inon the Fulton-Ryan road failed votes at these· two boxes went to make a curve during a heavy into a second day during the first CH CAG D lo one home. 29 ( UP) I 0 , cc. An airline pilot reported seeing rainstorm and crashed into an primary in 1951. massive winter storm s P re a d the funnel about five miles from embankment. All three were A Mississippi political tradiknocked unconscious. tion - that of announcement of mountainous snows, sleet, torna- the cast Mississippi city sborlly beLloyd Robinson, driving by candidacies at the opening of cir- does and cold across the nation to- fore it swooped down to touch at shortly after the accident, carried cuit court terms- can be ex- day, trapping "U1ousands'' of mo-I least lour times a~ it skipped torists in the Southwest and claim- among the houses. the two men and the boy to his pected to be renewed. car, then took them to the nearFirst announcements may be ing a mounting toll of dead. At least 22 deaths were attribby home 0£ his father-in-law Mon_ made at the opening of Tishom:nroe Dulaney. Mr. Robinson said go County circuit court in Iuka uted to the weather. nine of them in the crash of an Air Force Cll9 the boy's head was under wat~. J an. 3. Flying B o x c a r during violent in the roadside ditch when he squalls in Alabama. arrived · Tornadoes also raked Alabama The injured people were taken WASHINGTON - Republican and Mississippi, injuring 22 persons to the Crockett Clinic in Fulton, Senator Hcm·y Doworshak of Idaand causing widespread property then Willie Bryan Senter was ho says the Eisnhower admin,sdamage. brought to the Community HosThe bewildering array or weather lration can have "no legitimale pital in Tupelo, where he died also included a flood in southeast- reason" for Iailure to balance at 7:30 a . m. Wednesday of a ern West Virginia where a number next year's budget. broken neck. "It we can't balance it now," of small streams, swollen by rain Hls son, Jimmy Wayns Senter, and melted snow. overtlowed their he says, "we can never balance was dismissed :from the hospital banks. Low • lying homes were it.' Wednesday morning following flooded. Dworshak, a member of the treatment for a fractured ,a rin In lhe midst of llie wintl'y blow, Senate Appropriations Commitand for four ribs that were pullA 19-year old youth accused 0£ Connecticut had the warmest Dec. tee, says the United States is not ed loose. His brother, Junior ::;~o- beating to death a Brinkley, Ark , 29 on record with 7 degrees. But engaged in "either a cold war or ter, was still receiving hospital housewife Sunday December 12 the mercury soon fell to 41 as the a hot war right now," and called treatment Wednesday for frar.:t- at about 6:30 a. m. reportedly storm's effects were felt. for a "retrenchment in Fede1al ured ribs, cuts and bruises. In Texas and Oklahoma thous- spending. entered a Memphis gas statio:i Mr. Senter, who bad been em- at about 6:15 that morning and ands of motorists were reported ployed i n Kenosha, Wisc .. for the spent the afternoon and evening stranded in blizzard snows that past five years, leaves his wife; in Tupelo, the Journal learned piled up in huge drifts. his son. a daughter, Sandra Kay Wednesday. Trains, buses, Army tanks, halftracks and bulldozers rescued more his rpother, Mrs. Alberta Senter In talks with Billy Ray Will- than 2,000 auto travelers in the BOLIVAR, Tenn. (U.P.) Dr. of Mt. Vernon; three brothers, Ce- ingham's attorney and a reprecil, Glen and Junior Senter, all of sentative of the Fox-Pelletier In- vicinity of Wichita Falls, Vernon Edwin Lamar Baker, 65, former Mt. Vernon ; and four sisters, ternational Detective Agency of and Electra, Tex.. alone. More superintendent of Western State Hospital here died today at his Mrs. Ed Umphress. Mrs. '!'irk Memphis, it was learned that three lban 1,000 cars were aided. A helicopter also picked Ufl five home. Green, Mrs. Howell Franks an:i attendants of a Memphis service Dr. Baker was granted a leave Mrs. Erskine Jamerson, all of tation said lhey saw the Oakman, persons in a stalled car between Vernon and Seymour, Tex. In other of absence from the hospital earMt. Vernon. Ala. youth for more than an rescues Army half - tracks towed ly this year and entered Memphis hour early OD the morning Of the school buses over the drifted mads. Baptist Hospital .:uly 9. He remurder. But many other autos had been turned home after 11 weeks and Mr. Fox said he presumed the slranded since Tuesday n i g h t, had been criticially ill since. two Memphis hotel employes who some with small children aboard, Baker was born at New Alstated they saw Willingham at and had exhausted gasoline needed . bany, Miss. Survivors include a about the same time, apparently to keep motors running so that !· sister, Mrs. H. P. Boswell oi New FORT WORTH, Tex., Dec .. 29 heaters would operate. Albany. (Continued On Page 61 (UP ) -Convair workers here are "decontaminating" radioactive B36 bombers, company officials announced today. The carefully - worded announcement confirmed reports that the " hot" ibombers were returned to , Construction in Tupelo durmg down," Mr. Conway said. "It expensive houses, depletion of the pla.nt. here af.ter being. exposed 1954 shattered all previous re- looks like they're going to ke ep practially all availavle lots in on building homes at the same older sub-divisions and by rapid to radrnbon durmg atomic bomb cord s an d resulted 1·n the grea•est tests. , pace during 1955." expansions of the newer residenThe announcement did not give one-year home building spl•1rge The 1954 construction picture in tal sections at the edge of the the number of planes involved nor in the city's history, Building In- Tupelo is as follows: 178 new city. did it name the tests in which they spector W. J. Conway announced homes at a cost of $1,338,399; forThe addition t o the Day-Brite participated. Wednesday. ty six commercial and industrial plant was the city's biggest indus. Total value of all const.ruction projects at a cost of $985,106; a trial p roject of the year. The in the city during the year was total of 161 repair projects valued $450,000 plant will be completed $2,695,528. This was more than at $208,023; and three church pro- in mid-January. a $100,000 above the previous jects at a total cost of $164,000. Building of large. modern serOXFORD - A Highway Pa- high of $2,576,053 established in The 1954 construction total in vice stations was the biggest comtrolman. Ezra Bullard, died of a 1951. the city was far above 1953's to- mercial activity during the year. heart attack tonight after collapA total of 178 uew homes-at a tal of $1,7..56,706. Total value of The six new service stations were sing as he investigated a traHic cost of 1,338,399- were com- construction in other years ; in built at an estimated cost of pleted or started during the year. 1952, it was $1,331,311 and in 1951 $120,000. violation near Oxford. This compares with the pre- it was $2,576,053. Patrolman Glenn Gardner . said Other big industrial and comBullard, formerly of Iuka, was vious record oi 161 homes built The home building splurge m mercial projects included: the rushed to an Oxford Hospital but in 1950, the city during the year was Tupelo Realty Company's plant . was pronounced dead on arrival. "There are no ingns o! a slow- marked by construction of more for Neuth-Morri Box Co., $20.-
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Laurel Tornado Damage Estimated At $100,000
Crash Fatal To W.B. Senter
Services Set Today At Itawamba Church
WinterStorms Sweep Nation
Twiste rs, Blizza rds Increase Death Toll
Slayer-Suspect Visited Tupelo~
Idaho Republ ican Sees ' No Excuse' For Overspending
Billy R. Willingham Here Day Of Murder
Dr. E. L. Baker o·,es At Bolivar, Te nn.
'Hot' 8-36 Bombers Get Treatment At Fort Worth. Texas
Gasoline Research Pioneer Succumbs In Miami Apartment
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MIA\n, Dec. 29 <UP>-Dr. liam Meriam Burton, 89, Ule first man to ' crack" gasoline and a former president of Standard Oil of Indiana. died here today at bi botel apartment. Dr. Burt.on. a graduate of John& Hopkins University in 1889, set up the first research laboratory in the petroleum industry at W11iting, Ind. Tile Burton thermal "cracking" process was the only method of producing gasoline until 1936. He joined Standard Oil of Indiana in 1890 and was elected president in 1918. He served as president w1til he resigned in 1927He moved here in 1948.
Tupelo Construction At New High
Highway Patrolman, Ezra Bullard, Dies
000; the new TA line crew headquarters, $49,000; The Thomas office building, $75,000; and the Armstrong Arcade, $40,000. Church projects during the year were a new building for the East Tupelo Church of Ch1ist; modernization of the Oak Ridge Christian church building; and construction of the educational building for the Harrisburg Baptist Church. The construction for December showed permits issued for $167,• 725 worth of building. The December report include permits for 10 new residences at a cost of $86,500; four commercial and industrial projects at $52,875; and 16 repair proj ct.
$48,350.