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good afternoon Tuesday inim 1976 Jackson Sun, Inc. Two Sections Jackson, Tenn. 1 5 Cents Nov. 30, 1976 PH NE 424-808OV Execution Selay i ll more OOU 1 BO Call Sun line 424-8080 or write Sun Line Box 1 059, for action and information. Include your phone number or address in case your question requires clarification.

Sun Line selects the most interesting and informative queries to appear in print. All callers' names are kept confidential. will be 36 next month, said he had always accepted sentences handed to him, including the death penalty. But he said when the sentence was decreed, "everybody jumped up and started arguing with me. I didn't know it was a joke," he said of the death sentence.

Gilmore appeared healthy as he went before the board, despite a hunger strike he has been on since Nov. 19. EARLIER, GILMORE, who says death is better than prison, wrote the board a defiant letter laced with obscenities urging it to uphold his death sentence: "Let's do it, you cowards. "I do not seek or desire your vl- i hearing. HE DESCRIBED Utah Gov.

Calvin Rampton, who stayed Gilmore's execution date from Nov. 15 so the board could consider the matter, as a "moral coward." And Gilmore assailed other groups who seek to block his death penalty, saying he did not think the American Civil Liberties Union, for example, has ever done anything effective. Gilmore said of those who sought to delay his execution, "People get behind a cause and it becomes a big thing. Does it really matter what the cause is?" Although attorneys for other other Death Row inmates assert the interests of their clients could be 4 u- tUfi v. i SALT LAKE CITY AP) Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore told the Utah Board of Pardons today that he neither seeks nor deserves clemency from his death sentence and that "it's my life and my death." The board heard nearly two hours of testimony on Gilmore's sentence, which he says he wants carried out before a firing squad, and then recessed into executive session to consider whether it should commute his sentence.

It was not known when the board would announce its ruling. "I don't desire anything from you, I don't deserve anything," Gilmore said calmly in a brief statement at the opening of the Panel Says Merger Of Schools Unwise By JIMMY MIZELL Sun Reporter A city-county school consolidation advisory committee here Monday night finalized its report saying merger of the two school systems is not advisable "at this time." Members of the committee, formed under a federal court order in August, had agreed last month that merger of the Jackson and Madison County school systems is not advisable now, even though consolidation possibly could result in a more racially unitary school system than is possible or probable by having separate school systems. Four of the seven committee members present Monday night adopted a report which included the recommendation that present city-county school district lines be frozen. Voting for the report were County School Superintendent James Walker, John L. Ross and Edward Everett.

City School Superintendent Fred Standley, Mrs. David Holbrook and Mrs. Cleo Boyd abstained from voting. John D. Graham, committee chairman, then cast the fourth vote for the report, which committee members referred to as the majority report.

Commitee members then agreed to submit to the federal court another report which ommitted any reference to freezing district lines and referred to as the minority report. The minority report was offered by Standley with Mrs. Boyd and Mrs. Holbrook asking their names be added to Standley 's report. THE CONSOLIDATION commit tee's report is scheduled to be submitted to U.S.

District Court Judge Harry Wellford before a Dec. 6 deadline set by the judge. The stumbling block to consolidation now is the apparent lack of interest by the Jackson City Commission andor the Madison County Quarterly Court, the committee's final report pointed out. A majority report adopted Monday by the committee reads: "The committee reports that, based upon numerical data, it is possible that the consolidation of the Jackson and Madison County school systems would result in attaining a more racially unitary school system than is possible or probable in the totality of the existing two separate systems. However, the committee feels that the consolidation of the Madison County and Jackson City school systems is not advisable at this time.

The apparent lack of interest of the governing bodies of the City of Please Turn To Page 5 jeopardized by his execution, Gilmore contended he does not see how his case affects them. He said the board's hearing, "to paraphrase Shakespeare, is much ado about nothing, really." "I believe I had a fair trial and the sentence was proper," he said in response to a question. GILMORE SAID of the sentence: "It seems the people, especially the people of Utah, want, the death penalty, but they don't want executions and when it became a reality that they have to carry one out they start backing out on it. I took them literal and serious when they sentenced me to death." The veteran prison inmate, who 1 dedication, said the speeches are expected to last "about 45 minutes," then the ribbon will be cut, the dignitaries will move out of the way, and the latest bridge across the wide river will be open for normal traffic. At the end of the day, the two ferries, five miles north of the bridge at Caruthersville, and five miles south, at "Cottonwood Point, will cease to operate after 50 years of shuttling people, vehicles and horses across the river.

The only ferry left will be 27 miles upstream at Tiptonville, and besides that ferry and the new bridge, the only other ways to cross the river along the Tennessee state line are in Memphis. THE NEW BRIDGE is 3,590 feet long, and carries Interstate 155 across the river, to connect with U.S. 51 Bypass in Dyersburg and Interstate 55 in Hayti, Mo. Missourians will find it easy to get to the bridge from their side, but for Tennesseans, the route to the bridge from Dyersburg will be primitive for the next 20 months. Please Turn To Page 5 commission today requests a formal statement by the county toward the continued operation of J.B.

Young. The annexation of the two areas is currently tied up in Madison County Chancery Court where residents have filed a suit blocking the proceedings. The case will probably not be heard until after the first of the year. In other business, the commission approved a health insurance plan for city employes with Blue Cross and Blue Shield effective Feb. 20.

Commissioners agreed last Friday to renew a life insurance clemency he said in the four-line letter made public Monday. "The sentence was set I accept it." But the chairman, George Latimer, told Gilmore at the opening of the hearing that the board's duty is to the state constitution and statutes, not to Gilmore's wishes. Latimer stressed that the board would not consider matters involving constitutionality of the statute, but merely whether "relief" should be granted on the merits of Gilmore's case. GILMORE OUTLINED in a newspaper interview Monday what he planned to ask the board. Please Turn To Page 5 in- Sun Pholo 6 Lorry Atherton Sun Graphics By Ken Kendall-Ball intersections.

The commission also: Awarded a contract to Jackson Sheet Metal for. reroofing the Municipal Court building. The low bid submitted by the company for the project was $1,923. Awarded a contract for chert to Fred Teague Co. for $3,190.

Approved an employment notice for Elvon L. DeBerry, 801 Eastern in the street department. Approved a rezoning of a lot on Deadrick, just off Highland Avenue from RG2 (general residential) toB4 (businessL ti Uf A Q. Is Jackson going to have a Christmas parade this year? R.C. Jackson A.

No. Christmas parades continue to be discussed, but there is no community-wide support and interest for staging a parade at this time, said Larry Welch, Chamber of Commerce manager. Q. Where ean I find a doll hospital to send a doll for repairs? Mrs. F.C.

Jackson A. To contact a "surgeon" for your doll, contact Mrs. W. T. Hudgings at Hudgings Happy Doll Hospital (427-0228).

And for more information on "admitting" your doll to the hospital, see the feature story today on Page 1 A. Q. Recently, while going west on Baltimore Street, I was stopped by the light at Baltimore and Shannon. A car was making a postal deposit at the mail boxes there. When the light turned green, I turned right to go north on Shannon.

As I did, the car at the mailbox pulled away from the curb and narrowly missed me. He obviously was angry and apparently thought I was in error. Could you please clarify who has the right of way in that situation? D.B. Jackson The vehicle in the lane of traffic has the right of way, said Capt. Thomas Acuff of the Jackson Police Department.

Vehicles parked at the mailbox must yield the right of way to moving traffic, he explained. Q. I can't explain the presence of large fruit flies in our house. Because I don't leave fruit out in the open, I don't know how they get in or what they eat. I don't want to use insecticides because of our small child.

How else can we get rid of them? R.B. Jackson A. Besides fruit, the flies thrive on rotting wood, carpet with moisture under it, pantry foods, vegetables and any item that may be spoiling, said Gayle Parish, a University of Tennessee pesticide specialist. To avoid using insecticides, find the direct source of the flies and remove or correct it, Parish advised. The flies should be gone in a day or two.

He explained that those flies could be another type of insect, such as moths that feed on items such as gingerbread mixes. Any popular household insecticides with the chemical "pyrethrum" wosld be safe to use, he said. Parish added that whether you use an insecticide or not, removing the source of the flies is best. Q. Is the Gloria Marshall Salon here operated by the same persons who had the Elaine Powers Salon at another location before? Mrs.

M.J. Jackson Please Turn To Page 2 index Business 4A Classified 8A-9A Comics 6A Daily Report 7 A Dear Abby 6 Deaths 7 A Leisure 5A Living '76 6 Opinion 2 A People 7 Sports 8-9-10 TV Log 5A the weather Fair today and tonight. Partly cloudy Wednesday. Warming trend today through Wednesday. High today upper 30s.

Low tonight low 20s. High Wednesday low 40s. Winds, southwesterly 5 to 10 miles per hour today and 5 miles per hour tonight. More Weotner On Past I This long-awaited bridge which crosses the Mississippi to connect Tennessee and the Bootheel of Missouri will be dedicated Wednesday. Blanton, Bond To Speak New Bridge Opens Wednesday By CHAMBERS WILLIAMS Sun Gibson County Bureau DYERSBURG For nearly three decades Northwest Tennes-seans have lobbied, campaigned and pleaded for a bridge across the mighty Mississippi to connect them with their Missouri Bootheel neighbors, and to give them a better route to all points west.

NEARLY EIGHT years ago, after the bridge had been planned and replanned several times, construction actually began. Now, $25.8 million and a few thousand ferry trips later, the bridge is completed, and at 11 a.m. Wednesday, the current crop of Missouri and Tennessee politicians will be on hand to cut the ribbon and dedicate the new landmark their forefathers dreamed about. Master of ceremonies for the dedication will be former U.S. Sen.

Pat Patterson, and speakers will include governors Ray Blanton of Tennessee and Christopher "Kit" Bond of Missouri, Democrat and Republican, respectively. Don R. Meikle of the Dyersburg Jaycees, who are coordinating the A COUNTY SCHOOL board spokesman indicated during the September public hearing that the board wished to continue operating J.B. Young. The service plan for north Bemis proposed that kindergarten through sixth grade would be assigned to J.B.

Soung, while junior and senior high students would be assigned to South Side Junior and Senior High respectively, subject to the U.S. District Court's approval. The resolution approved by the Carrying Interstate 155 across the Mississippi, the new bridge links U.S. 51 Bypass in Dyersburg and 1-55 in Hayti, Mo. City Requests Decision On J.

B. Young plan with Occidental Life Co. effective Feb. 1. COMMISSIONERS approved with the state Department of Transportation to maintain the intersections of U.S.

45 Bypass and Air-, ways, South Highland and Royal, and South Highland and Harts Bridge Road. Mayor Bob Conger said the state will pay the cost for improved sig-nalization at the intersections under the agreement with the city to pay for maintenance. Bids will be taken Dec. 10 on all three By ELLEN DAIINKE Sun Reporter Despite a lawsuit which has delayed the Bemis annexation, City Commission approved a resolution this morning formally requesting the Madison County Quarterly Court to decide which school system will operate J.B. Young Elementary School.

The city has offered to take the school into their system or to allow the county to continue operating the facility. The proposal was part of a service plan adopted Sept. 3 by the.