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Monday, September 4, 2000 NATIONDEATHS 6 AThe Jackson Sun Sierra Club launches anti-SUV campaign Dancing tractors twice as likely as a car to kill the driver of the other vehicle in a collision, and an SUV is four times as likely to roll over in an accident. "We figured we'd put a lot of material in there, and make it user friendly. We're hoping to reach drivers on the Labor Day weekend," said Daniel Becker, director of the Sierra Club's Global Wanning and Energy Program, based in Washington DC. "Of all the things we know hw to do to reduce global wanning, the biggest single step we can take is making vehicles go farther on a gallon of gas," Becker said. Improving the standards would be a greater benefit than reducing power plant emissions by switching to cleaner fuels and renewable energy or by cutting energy demand, with efficient lighting, appliances and heating and cooling systems in houses, offices and factories, Becker said.

Global warming is a growing phenomenon, scientists say. Pollutant gases such as carbon dioxide emissions trap heat, ultimately raising temperatures, they say, and melting ice caps, flooding low-lying lands and shifting rain patterns that affect flpliBllP MK ANNOUKlMfNT The Associated Press Spinning tractors take center stage during the Farmall Promenade performance in Storm Lake, Iowa. Rain, snow welcome, but firefighters slip i 1 forests, crops and wildlife habitat. Gloria Bergquist, a spokeswoman for the Alliance of Auto Manufacturers in Washington, D.C., which represents Ford, GM, ChryslerDaimler and a dozen other car companies, said the industry is improving SUVs for all the people who want them. "We're trying to make SUVs cleaner and more fuel efficient.

We believe that competition is going to drive more progress," Bergquist said. "SUVs meet the demands of a lot of farmers, ranchers, tradespeople, families and small business owners. While some SUV drivers might not use their vehicles to their full capability, they like knowing they could have the passenger room, cargo room, towing ability and performance when they wanted," Bergquist said. This summer, Ford announced that it would cut the gas mileage by 25 percent in the Ford Escape to be introduced this fall. GM said it would match Ford.

Last year, of 16.9 million vehicles sold, 48 percent were light trucks compared to 52 percent in passenger vehicles. SUVs made up 19 percent of sales. supplied by West Funeral Directors In Lovina Memory Of-Gary "Spark Plug" Turner Salesman Of Jim Miles Nov. 4, 1945 -Sept. Labor Day 3 years ago God called you home.

Your love and memories remain strong. "Character Survivor" "Goodness Lives" "Love Is Immortal" Your Wife, Glenna Stepchildren Chris, Brad, Amy Step Grandson Turner Mom: Etta Mae Turner -Sister Gayle Clark Family Mary Jane Tucker Truett Mrs. Mary Jane Tucker Truett, 75, died Sunday afternoon at her home following an illness of twelve months with cancer. Funeral services will be Wednesday, September 6, 2000 at 10:30 A.M. at the First Christian Church conducted by Rev.

Paul Casteel. Burial will follow in Hollywood Cemetery. Friends may visit with the family from 5 to 8 P.M. Tuesday at the funeral home. Lawrence-Sorensen Funeral Home 424-2424 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 obitua7 through, their funeral home or the classified advertisement department of The Sun. BUS GOING TO SHERHTON CRSINO M5.ee Round Trip FOR INFORMATION RESERURTIONS CALL 1-888-725-9949 or 981-668-6511 Free "Insider" Report: How to End IRS Problems Foreveri" 888-807-7464 24 Hour Recorded Message ''5 i ifeS. fcal By JANE KAY San Francisco Examiner The Sierra Club is launching a nationwide campaign to showcase what it sees as the dark side of SUVs the brown haze of air pollution, weather disasters linked to global warming, and oil derricks chugging away to fill gas tanks. In a six-page brochure making its way to congressional offices and media outlets, the 108-year-old national environmental group is depicting gas-guzzling, carbon dioxide-spewing SUVs as hazardous, not hip. Switching from driving an average new car to a 13 mile-per-gallon SUV for a year, it says, would waste more energy than leaving a refrigerator door open for six years, a bathroom light burning for 30 years, or a color television turned on for 28 years.

Other disturbing factoids in the brochure based on industry and independent research assert the following: SUVs put out 43 percent more global-warming pollutants 28 pounds of carbon dioxide per gallon of gas consumed and 47 percent more air pollution than the average car. Raising the fuel-economy standards for SUVs and other light trucks to equal that of cars would save 1 million barrels of oil a day. An SUV or a pickup is more than The Associated Press died August 25 at Kansas City. Mo. He is survived by his wife, Pansy Watson; seven sons, Larry Watson, Horance Thomas, Michael Watson, Curtis Watson, Allen Watson, Marshall Watson and Stanley Watson all of Kansas City six daughters, Ann Watson, Denise Watson, Anita Watson, Judy Watson, Rita Watson and E.

Ann Watson; and a sister, Ruby Mclntyre. For more information, call the funeral home at (901) 968-2145. Bryonia Wortham, 10 JACKSON Services for Bryonia Wortham, 10, will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Faith Deliverance Center. Burial will be in the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Jackson.

Bryonia, a student, died Wednesday at Jackson Madison County General Hospital of heart disease. She is survived by her mother and father, Robbie Reeves and Devoy Wortham, both of Jackson; a sister and a brother, Raven Rankin and Ezekiel Timothy Reeves, both of Jackson. For more information, call Mercer Brothers Funeral Home at (901) 423-4922. Funeral including steel casket Charges Include basic services of tuner al director and staff Transfer of remains to funeral home Other preparation of remains Visitation facilities Use of facilities tor chapel and staff services ($270) Hearse Flower vehicle 20 guage steel non-protective casket PRIOFS SUBJFCT TO CHANOF WITHOUT NOTICF Maui uwm 901-427-5555 "Senices to jit every family's budget" Information Tennessee In Memory Of Norvell Turner Jan. 11, 1923 Sept.

4, 1999 One year ago God sent his angel to carry you home. We love and miss you. One day we will meet again. Love Forever, Your Wife and Children Wanda Volner Funeral Services for Wanda Volner, 48, will be 3:00 P.M. Tuesday, September 5, 2000 at Bemis Pentecostal Church with Brother Carl McKellar officiating with burial in Lesters Chapel Cemetery.

George A. Smith And Sons South Chapel is in Charge of Arrangements. Mrs. Volner, a homemaker, died Friday, September 1 2000 at Jackson Madison County General Hospital after a long illness. She was born in Lexington, TN the Daughter of William and Kathleen Moore Bedwell.

Mrs. Volner is survived by her husband William Volner of Jackson, TN; two sons, Eddie Austin and Joshua Volner of Jackson, TN. She is also survived by her mother Kathleen Bedwell of Lexington, TN; five brothers, Danny Bedwell, Wayne Bedwell, Tony Bedwell, Jackie Bed-well, Roy Bedwell of Lexington, TN; one Grandson, Rylee Volner of Jackson, TN. Pallbearers for the service will be Jeremy Cooper, Larry Davidson, Keith Davis, Wesley Freeman, Chris Parish and Gerald Parish. The family will receive friends today from 3:00 until 8:00 P.M.

at the South Chapel of George A. Smith And Sons. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 2:00 P.M. until service time at Bemis Pentecostal Church. George A.

Smith and Sons South Chapel 1544 S. Highland Ave. Jackson, TN 901-427-5555 u. Double Monuments from 595 Single Monuments from s185 Custom Monuments ire our Specialty 427-3692 888-427-3692 Firefighter Sandy Henning from the DeSoto National Forest, carries a fire hose on her tool as she hikes out of the woods after fighting the Willie forest fire near Red Lodge, on Sunday. fighting a fire in a pine tree plan- have been killed fighting wildfires tation, said state Forestry Com- around the nation this year, missioner Harold Anderson.

On the Net At least eight other firefighters www.nifc.gov "We may have turned the corner on the fires in Montana and Idaho, but we aren't out of the woods yet." Neil Hitchcock, National Interagency Fire Center Plains. Several new fires had been reported in Texas, it said. The agency listed 82 major fires burning Sunday in Arkansas, California, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming. They had blackened 1.6 million acres. In Montana, 27 large fires were burning on 662,686 acres.

Firefighters expected to fully contain by Wednesday a fire near Red Lodge, which had forced hundreds of homeowners to evacuate temporarily last week. The eight-day-old, fire wasn't a threat to the town or mountain homes, "unless we get a big cold front that comes down from Alaska with big wind that could kick us back to square one," said Forest Service spokesman Jeff Gildehaus. Rain also helped thousands of firefighters in Idaho, which had 691,665 acres burned or burning, and a fire near White-bird was declared contained Saturday. Elsewhere, a firefighter died Sunday in Mississippi of injuries he had suffered Aug. 20 while Charlotte Ann Draper, 52 TRENTON Services for Charlotte Ann Draper, 52, will be at 3 p.m.

Tuesday at Shelton Funeral Home in Trenton. Burial will be in the Yorkville Cemetery. Mrs. Draper, a Licensed Practical Nurse for Trenton Healthcare, died Saturday at Jackson Madison County General Hospital of a stroke. She is survived by her husband, Teddie Taylor of Trenton; her mother, Ruby Loynes of Dyer; a daughter, Lisa Rangel Hughes of Dyersburg; two step-daughters and two step-sons, Julie Markham of Dyersburg, Janeen Scobey of Rutherford, Jimmie Draper and Jay Draper both of Dyer; and three sisters, Becky Tilford of Bradford, Sue Gelfarb of Chicago, 111., and Teresa Carter of Dyer For more information, call the funeral home at (901) 855-1621 or the obit line at (901) 855-1800.

Eddie Jane Clark, 91 POCAHONTAS Services for Eddie Jane Clark, 91, will be at 1 p.m. today at Shackelford Funeral Home in Selmer. Burial will be in the White Oak Cemetery in Ramer. Mrs. Clark, a retired employee from Jarvis Corporation, died Sunday at Jackson Madison County General Hospital of heart failure.

She was preceded in death by two husbands, Marvin Hollis and George Howard Clark. She is survived by a daughter and three sons, Sadie Leatherwood of Ramer, Dale Clark of Ramer, Ernest Clark of Hornsby and Allen Clark of Pocahontas; and a sister, Mary Essie Freeman of Evansville, Ind. For more information, call the funeral home at (901) 645-3481. Jean Felton, 71 JACKSON Arrangements for Jean Felton, 71, are incomplete. Mrs.

Felton died Sunday at Jackson Madison County General As of Sunday, 82 major fires were burning in 1 1 states, including Mississippi and Arkansas. By JOHN KUGLIN The Associated Press HELENA, Mont. Rain and even snow helped firefighters make major progress to contain wildfires in the northern Rockies on Sunday, even as they made the steep terrain slippery and hazardous. Crews were pulled off some lines at a fire on the Flat-" head Indian Reservation because wet rock and mud were too slippery to continue building fire lines. Some snow fell Sunday on the mountains around southwestern Montana's Bitterroot Valley, which accounts for half of the state's charred acreage.

"It was so cold in camp that we had frost," Forest Service spokeswoman Sheela McLean said. I The damp conditions, though, helped firefighters make consider-able progress, said Neil Hitchcock of the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. "We may have turned the corner on the fires in Montana and Idaho, but we aren't out of the woods yet," he said. The center said that while weather in the West had improved, dry weather still dominated parts of the Southeast and the DEATHS Rufert Lester Aden, 81 JACKSON Graveside ser-, vices for Rufert Lester Aden, 81, be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Highland Memorial Gardens.

Mr. Aden, a retired employee from Milan Arsenal, died Friday Jackson-Madison County General Hospital of heart failure. For more information, call George A. Smith and Sons Funeral Home at (901) 427-5555. Lillian Brasfield, 96 FRIENDSHIP Services for Lillian Catherine Brasfield, 96, will be at 2 p.m.

Tuesday at Maury City First Baptist Church. Burial will be in Bellev-; ernon Cemetery in Friendship. Mrs. Brasfield, a homemaker, died Sunday at Crocket County Nursing Home of heart failure. She was preceded in death by husband, W.P.

Brasfield. She is survived by two daugh- ters and a son, Marion Gilbert of 1 Friendship, Dorothy Black of Brentwood and William Bras- field of Friendship; and two half-brothers, William Parham and Thomas Parham both of Dyer County. For more information, call Friendship Funeral Home at (901)677-2673. Margaret V. Brown, 79 BROWNSVILLE Services for Margaret V.

Brown, 79, will be at 11 a.m. today at Brownsville Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Marvin's Chapel Church Cemetery. Mrs. Brown, a homemaker, died Friday at home of cancer.

She is survived by her husband, Russell Brown of Leas-burg, a daughter, Imogene Young of Whiteville; and two half-brothers, Todd Rook and Bennie Rook both of Memphis. For more information, call the funeral home at (901) 772-1551. Hospital. For more information, call George A. Smith and Sons Funeral Home at (901) 427-5555.

John Thomas Nevii, 68 ATWOOD Services for John Thomas Nevil, 68, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Bodkin Funeral Home in Milan. Burial will be in the Howse Cemetery in Atwood. Mr. Nevil, a retired employee of Tennessee Valley Authority, died Saturday at Jackson Madison County General Hospital of a stroke.

He was preceded in death by a daughter, Gloria Ann Nevil. He is survived by his wife, Jo Ann Jones Nevil of Atwood; three daughters and a son, Susan Elaine Neill of McKenzie, LeAnn Denise Quinn of Huntingdon, Sherri L. Sutherby of McLemorsville and James Tank" Nevil of Milan; and a sister, Peggy S. Trayler of Puyallup, Wash. For more information, call the funeral home at (901) 686-3111.

Isaac Rodgers, 87 SHARON Services for Isaac Rodgers, 87, will be at 3 p.m. today at Gardner Funeral Home in Sharon. Burial will be in the Woodlawn Cemetery. Mr. Rodgers, a retired employee from Robinson-Belew, died Saturday at Methodist Volunteer Hospital in Martin of heart disease.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Cozette Cole Rodgers. He is survived by a daughter, Carolyn Lowrance of Sharon; and a broth-er, Adolph Rodgers of Chattanooga. For more information, call the funeral home at (901) 456-2300. Carl Watson, 78 LEXINGTON Graveside services for Carl Watson, 78, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery in Lexington.

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