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Turkish Arm Sales deaths The Jackson Sun, Jackson, Tennessee, Wednesday, September 1 7, 1 975 Ho Embargo Lift Okay United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces. The bases, he said, "are vital to U.S. and western security." Congress imposed an arms embargo against Turkey last February in an effort to force Turkey to negotiate reduction of its occupation of Cyprus. But Ford said the embargo instead has become "a major impediment to negotiations" on Cyprus. "I firmly believe failure to lift the embargo soon will lead to complete closure of a majority of U.S.

use WASHINGTON AP) A bill to lift the U.S. arms sales embargo against Turkey was approved by a House committee today after President Ford said the embargo could bring the closing of most U.S. bases in that country. The House International Relations Committee voted 25 to 9 to lift the embargo. The full.

House is expected to consider the bill early next week. In a letter to the House, Ford said U.S. installations in Turkey provide intelligence collection capability and support to both the Congress left Aug. 1 on a month-long recess, but an effort to get final action in the House at that time was blocked. Ford said in bis letter he still wants repeal of Congress' total U.S.

military aid embargo against Turkey. But Ford said he believes the more limited renewal of U.S. arms sales would permit him "to begin the essential task of rebuilding our bilateral relationship with Turkey and would greatly enhance the possibilities for progress on Cyprus." installations in Ford said. "Some of these installations are unique and irreplaceable." Ford made the appeal in a letter to leaders of the House International Relations Committee just before it began consideration of a Senate-passed bill authorizing $185 million in U.S. arms sales to Turkey.

The House rejected a similar bill in July by a vote of 223 to 206 and Turkey immediately took over most joint U.S.-Turkish bases in that country. The Senate again passed the bill 47 to 46 just before Mrs. Buckley CEDAR GROVE Services for Mrs. Clara Buckley, 52. will be at 2 p.m.

Thursday at Mt. Ararat Baptist Church with CP. Mosley officiating. Burial ill be in the church cemetery with Parham tuary in charge. Mrs.

Buckley died Sunday at Jackson-Madison County Hospital after a short illness. She was born in Henderson County. Mrs. Buckley was a member of the Mt. Ararat church.

She leaves her widower, Johnnie Buckley; a daughter, Mrs. Rosemary Derrick of Cedar Grove; five sonsJob Buckley and Samuel Buckley, both of Cedar Grove, Luke Buckley of Huntingdon, Mark Buckley of Nashville and Paul E. Buckley of Benton Harbor, three sisters, Mrs. Lola White and Mrs. Adell Williams, both of Cedar Grove, and Mrs.

Leara Jean Simmons of Nashville; two brothers, Joel Cogdell of Chicago and Sid Cogdell of Paducah, and 13 grandchildren. The family will receive friends Thursday morning. Mrs. Taylor GLEASON Services for Mrs. Katharyne Simmons Taylor, 69, will be at 2 p.m.

Thursday at Bowlin Funeral Home with the Rev. Franklin Gardner and the Rev. T.B. Stone officiating. Burial will be in Olive Branch Cemetery.

Mrs. Taylor died Tuesday at Volunteer General Hospital after a long illness. She was a member of Olivett Methodist Church. She leaves her widower, J.D. Taylor of Gleason; a son, Joe D.

Taylor of Dresden; a daughter, Mrs. Martha Carol Barker of Humboldt; two brothers, Thomas E. Simmons of Royal Oaks, Mich, and J.C. Simmons of Holt, four grandchiildren and a great-grandchild. Mrs.

Siler HORNSBY Services for Mrs. Minnie Keistler Siler, 90, were today at Hornsby Baptist Church with the Rev. Dale Prince officiating. Burial was in Wyatt Cemetery with Shackelford Funeral Home in charge. Mrs.

Siler died Tuesday at Brint Nursing Home in Bolivar after a long illness. She was a member of the Hornsby Baptist Church. She leaves no immediate survivors. Hiscox To Begin JHA Work Sept. 29 Mrs.

Hodges Mrs. Velma Gilland Hodges, Cypress Gardens Drive, widow of John W. Hodges, died at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital after a long illness. She was 83.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at George A. Smith Sons Funeral Home with the Rev. John Jones officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Springs Hodges was born and reared in Chester County and had lived in Memphis most of her life before moving to Jackson ten years ago.

For many years she was a member of Parkway Methodist Church in Memphis and at the time of her death was a member of Bemis Methodist Church. She leaves a son, Jimmy E. Hodges, Jackson; three brothers, Hartle Gilland of Jackson, Bonnie Gilland of Greenville and S. N. Gilland of Leesburg, a sister, Mrs.

Ann Baker, Jackson; six grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. Pallbearers are Buster Horn, Robert Mills, J. T. Orr, J. B.

Booper, Harvey Kirk, and Shannon Garrett. 1 5-Year-OId Dies Of Cycle Injuries SELMER Steven Andrew Flynn, 15, of Selmer, died Tuesday afternoon at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital following a traffic accident here earlier this month, the Highway Patrol reported. Trooper James Tillman said Flynn was hurt about 8:30 p.m. Sept. 2 when the motorcycle he was riding ran off McNairy County High School Road and hit an embankment.

Hospital authorities said he died about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Shackelford Funeral Home of Selmer is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete. plicants already on file, Hiscox said. "However, we definitely do not want to throw out those applications we now have because some people are stronger than their resumes show," Hiscox advised commissioners.

The nearly 150 applications now on file will be down to a workable minimum to be considered with those applicants who respond from the coming advertisements," Russell said. The two supervisory positions are called for in federally-funded programs at Lincoln Courts. job with the Knoxville HUD office of housing management, Russell told commissioners. His salary will be about $20,000, he added. Hiscox will come to Jackson under provisions of the Intergovernmental Personnel Act with HUD paying a portion of his salary and JHA paying the remainder.

In other business the JHA voted to readvertize in area and metropolitan Southern newspapers for the positions of resident services supervisor and day care director to avoid hiring any unqualified ap John Hiscox, new management director of the Jackson Housing Authority, will assume his post Sept. 29, housing authority chairman Simpson Russell said Tuesday. The 30-year-old Knoxville resident arrived in Jackson Tuesday for the authority's annual meeting of the board of commissioners. He will be here for the rest of this week secure housing before moving my family here later this month," he said. The former Jackson ian will be taking a leave of absence from his No.

1 Store 590 E. Chester Open 8 a.m. til 8 p.m. Plenty of Parking No. 2 Store Downtown Convenient for Downtown Shoppers SAVE ON THESE SPECIALS AND MANY MORE GOLDEN RICH SOLID Lbs.

mmm Wc I mrmftrar I Lambuth Alumni Give SHOWBOAT PORK AND Ruben Britton MCKENZIE Services for Ruben H. Britton, 90, retired farmer, were today at Enon Baptist Church with the Rev. Dennis Beal and the Rev. Claude Prince officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery with Brummitt Funeral Home in charge.

Mr. Britton died Monday at McKenzie Memorial Hospital after a short illness. He leaves three sons, William L. Britton of Tecumseh, James E. Britton of Bruceton and Marvin Britton of Paris; eight daughters, Mrs.

R. J. Duncan of Lavinia, Mrs. J. B.

Horton, Mrs. James Stafford and Mrs. Ernest Adams, all of McKenzie, Mrs. George Sydnor of At wood, Mrs. Gladys Sellers of Lansing, Miss Dorothy Britton of Memphis and Mrs.

Warren Cooper of Hammond, 15 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. J. Swearingen GREENFIELD Gravesjde services for John Edward Swearingen, 63, retired truck driver, were today at Highland Cemetery with the Rev. Johnson Easley officiating. Williams Funeral Home was in charge.

Mr. Swearingen died Tuesday at Methodist Hospital in Memphis after a long illness. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Montez Taylor Swearingen, Greenfield; two sons, Johnny Swearingen and Jerry Swearingen, both of Memphis; two daughters, Mrs. Judy Gentry and Mrs.

Joan Hurd, both of Memphis; a brother, David Swearingen, Memphis; and a sister, Mrs. Carolyn Hill, Memphis. Obed Parker HUNTINGDON Obed Parker, 85, was pronounced dead on arrival at Wilson's Clinic Tuesday. Funeral arrangements are incomplete with Parham Mortuary in charge. a single year.

A total of $32,743 was contributed. James F. Freeman, vice president of the First National Bank, Jackson, was chairman of the campaign. An executive planning committee of 12, and a working committee of more than 50, provided the initial thrust for the loyalty campaign; said Fred Brewster, director of college relations and alumni affairs. The average Lambuth alumni gift in 1973-74 was $32 while the 1974-75 average alumni gift to Lambuth was $62, Brewster said.

Dr. Joseph W. McLeary, Lambuth alumnus and executive vice president, of Cook Indutries, gave a boost to the drive by making a challenge matching gift of $5,000 last September. In June, professor-emeritus Dr. Arthur D.

Oxley, writing on behalf of the loyalty drive, sent hundreds of letters to alumni of the classes of 1928 through 1956, invited them to become "Lambuth Founders" by pledging $100 or more to the Loyalty Fund. About 115 former students responded to his appeal by donating more than $12,000. These donors will receive oak paperweights carved of wood Dispute The victim, Ricky Lee Highland, was treated at Hardin County General Hospital and transferred to Jackson-Madison County General Hospital, where he was listed in fair condition this morning. The Highland boy and a 12-year-old boy got into an argument at school Tuesday and they agreed to meet after school to settle it, Sheriff Hale said. The younger boy had a 12-gauge shotgun when the two met in a wooded area of the Walnut Grove section and the older youth was shot in the back of his head and between his shoulders, the sheriff reported.

The 12-year-old boy is being held for questioning. Hale said. CUT xx ENGLISH MOUNTAIN EAIS3S CATSU -r HUNT'S RICELANO SHORT GRAIN EBGSSOBO 24 Oz. Sandwich Mrs. Pack PARIS Services for Mrs.

Patricia D. Pack, 32, will be at 8 p.m. Thursday at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church near Greenfield with the Rev. Dennis Beal officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery with Williams Funeral Home of Greenfield in charge.

Mrs. Pack died at 9 p.m. Monday in Stuttgart, after an extended illness. She leaves her widower, Steven Pack, Paris; a son, Kevin Hogg, Paris; two brothers, Hulon Green and Bobby Green, both of Stuttgart; a sister, Sue McCall, Stuttgart; and her mother, Lucille Green, Paris. $30,000 from trees felled by the April tornado that struck the campus.

The planning committee included Freeman and McLeary in addition to Tommy Allen. Carl Smith, Bobby Blackford. D. Roy Anderson, Mrs. Jewell Tinker, Dr.

William Bar-nett and Mrs. Paula Lyles Brown, all of Jackson; David Snipes, Humboldt; the Rev: William Vaughan, Lexington; and the Rev. B.L. Gaddie, Memphis. 3-Truck Collision Injures 2 Two men were hurt in the collision of a tractor-trailer truck, a pickup truck and an utility company truck on U.S.

70 at Lawrence Switch Road. The injured were identified as Russell E. Johnson, 40, Route 3, Lexington, driver of the tractor-trailer, and Jim B. Hatley III, 28, of 43 Windale a passenger in the rig. Both were dismissed after treatment at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital.

Highway Patrol Trooper Joe Carroll said Johnson was driving' west on U.S. 70 when he approached a truck belonging to West Tennessee Electric Membership Cooperative. The driver of the truck, John Parrott 49, Route 5, Jackson, had stopped the utility truck, apparently to turn into the cooperative driveway, the trooper explained. Johnson tried to stop behind the utility truck, Carroll said, and the tractor-trailer truck jackknifed when Johnson applied the brakes. The rig then slammed into the utility truck and bounced off, hitting a pickup truck driven by Gary E.

Patterson. 27, of 1150 Hollywood Drive, the trooper said. MERIT SALTINES CRACKERS McCORMICK BLACK PEPPER KRAFT MAC AND CHEESE Wa OH 15 Oz. Cans 17 Ox. Cans 00 69c Quart Lb.

00 Boxes 39e 39e Lb. 69e 7 0z. 00 Boxes 15 Oz. Cans lb 99c $1 29 1 29 49c Lb. MUSTARD AND TURNIP 3 Each Alumni giving to Lambuth College surpassed the $30,000 goal in the 1974-75 Loyalty Fund Drive, marking the largest amount contributed to this fund in Dispatcher Hurt In Wreck Ronnie E.

White, 27, of Huntingdon, a Highway Patrol radio dispatcher, was injured in an accident on Interstate 40 between U.S. 70 and Law Road shortly after 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Trooper Richard Wagner said he was patrolling the interstate when he came upon the accident "two or three minutes after it happened." Wagner said he had no idea the accident victim was a coworker until he turned over the prostrate victim and recognized White. One of White's duties is to dispatch troopers to accident scenes.

White's eastbound pickup truck was demolished after it ran off the pavement and overturned, Wagner reported. White was listed in fair condition at the Jackson-Madison County General Hospital this morning. Youth Shot In SAVANNAH An argument at school apparently led to the shooting of a 15-year-old boy by a 12-year-old boy in the Walnut Grove area of Hardin County Tuesday afternoon, Hardin County Sheriff James Hale said. Police Arrest Jackson Man Billy Joe Womack, 20, of Womack Lane, was arrested Tuesday by the Madison County Sheriffs Depart-men in connection with an attempted burglary. Officers said Womack is accused of trying to break into the James Anderson home on Womack Lane early Sunday morning.

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