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The Jackson Sun from Jackson, Tennessee • 2

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The Jackson Suni
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Jackson, Tennessee
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21 THE JACKSON SUN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1972 Episcopal Rector Supports Legal Sales Of Liquor today's FUNNY found that southern hospitality is not a cliche but a real thing, legal control of liquor sales, Fa local option law. -J and the buildings and people in ther Walker declared: Father Walker has been rec AWRLIN55 these towns are so beautiful and "We have to face facts, we tor of St Luke's since March, so picturesque because they are do have the sale of liquor in IS- HOARD 1969, coming to Jackson from real, not something on a movie Madison County and will con Holy Trinity Episcopal Church LABOR li "Walking Tall" will premiere tinue to have it. The question is at Memphis where he was the I Cl rector for seven years. He also in January in Jackson and in New York. Briskin says as in all his pictures, "Walking Tall" The Rev.

Paul Shields Walker, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, today urged approval of legal liquor sales in the Aug. 3 referendum and declared that a "dry" vote supports illicit bootlegging operations in Jackson and Madison County. Father Walker said the Vestry of historic St. Luke's Church voted unanimously at its July 11 meeting to support his stand regarding the question of legal coitrol of the sale of alcoholic beverages.

was rector at Trinity Episcopal Church at Gatlinburg for three has a sense of reality because of Joe Don Baker suitability to the role. riage feats and the like where wine was a normal part of those festivities. If drinking is a sin and Jesus did it, we have to say Jesus was a sinner, and yet we maintain he was without sin. "The Vestry of St. Luke's Church voted unanimously at its July 11th meeting that 'it the Vestry supports the Rector in his stand regarding the question of legal control of the sale of alcoholic beverages.

"Now the specific issue we face is whether the liquor is going to be legal or illegal, and I submit to you that in this situation a Christian would serve his God better and contribute to the welfare of society more by voting for legal control on August "As a strong man and a Southerner," i kin said, Producer Mort-- (Continued From Page 1) spending in McNairy County on caterers, (125 meals a day) motel accommodations, and other services if he had been met with "the right kind of cooperation in the beginning," Briskin said he would have sacrificed convenience and used several Selmer motels for the approximately 90 rooms he needed to house the film crew. Pusser, the ex-wrestler who is seeking another term as McNairy County sheriff, is "deeply hurt" by the local response to the movie, Briskin said. He said Pusser "was proud of his record" in crime fighting, and was proud of his home and his people, and wanted them to feel that same pride in McNairy County as an example of a place where crime doesn't pay. Briskin said he first heard of Buford Pusser while watching a CBS News television special about the ex-sheriff; minutes after the broadcast, he was on will it be legally or illegally sold. To vote dry is to support the breaking of the law and to support the bootleggers operating in Jackson and Madison County.

"On the religious Issue, the Bible is quoted as being against liquor. This is untrue. What the Bible is against is excessive drinking and drunkeness. "We also have the example of Jesus Himself. He not only turned water into wine, but there are any number of instances of and a half years and served as headmaster for the Episcopal Day School at Brownsville, Texas.

A native of Newport, Father Walker received his degree at the University of the South at Sewanee and graduated from St. Luke's Seminary "Baker is a natural for the Pusser role. I talked with other actors until I found the right man to play this part." The 24-year veteran of the IMM TV REV. WALKER W2WMA.I-7-I7 ggg, The Episcopal minister serves movie business said he had had this movie, as scripts have al full and gratifying cooperation from Madison and Chester at Sewanee. on the Committee for Legal Control and will lead a churchmen's group actively working ready been prepared." Todoy't FUNNY- will fwy $1.00 for ech erioinol "I umy" m4.

Softd oof to: Today'! FUNNY, 1200 Wtt Third Sr Clttlod, Okw 44113. He is the father of four chil Counties during the filming he "Walking Tall" is using an acting troupe of 46 Hollywood dren. for approval of package liquor actors and actresses. tlus hun stores under provisions of the Jesus' going to banquets, mar In his statement supporting has done to date. Filming should be finished, he said, by Sept.

1. "In all likelihood he said. dreds of local and area persons I who have been given small or "a TV series will be spun off walk-on parts. f.l BOYD Sears False Lashes, Little Eyes the telephone talking to Pusser, and the next day he was on a plane headed for West Tennessee. He visited all sites where the action of the film happened in real life, and wrote his script "based on facts obtained from old court records and newspaper articles." fnlfl (n That pinstripe personality George Raft, actor turned dancer turned man-about-the-world, waited until he was 75 years old before he revealed to anybody that his real name is Ruffalo.

THE CLAIM that no twin ever became famous definitely has been proved wrong. But the contention that no twin ever Briskin pointed out that he would have been happy to let anyone in Selmer or McNairy County read the script of "Walk was recognized to be a ing Tall," but that no interest had been shown by any city of genius remains unrefuted. ficial. They were interested in condemning it, he said, without even seeing for themselves what is in it. FALSE EYELASHES, it's said, make the eyes of some girls look smaller.

Not every ingenue should wear same. NEVER HAS there been enough single women in the 20-to-30 age bracket to match up with the available bachelors, not ever. This contra- Briskin's son, Joel, assisting slacks ojeaos walk shorts walkin9 away with some great values with the production, remarked several days earlier that he and his company "were delighted with West Tennessee, we have diets the widespread myth about a surplus of marriageable girls. Correct, there are more women than men, overall. And certainly far more unattached ladies of retirement age than such seasoned fellows at liberty.

But under 35, the eligible bachelors outnumber the single girls considerably. CASH Supermarket cashiers undercharge more often than they overcharge. That's the claim of a cash register company's survey-takers. Said cashiers allegedly err on 77 per cent of all bills over $9. FILL A glass brim full of water.

Now, slowly, drop in one straight pin after another. How do you explain the fact you can drop in as many as 200 such pins without displacing any of that there water? SOME SCIENTIFIC evidence indicates a man's skull tissues are more apt to calcify than a woman's. Or to put it otherwise, regretably, the male tends to be more bone-headed than the female. MENTAL As for people who are apt to come unraveled mentally, February is evidently their roughest month. Admissions to psychiatric hospitals jump by about 25 per cent then.

Second roughest month has to be November. Admissions jump then, too. YOUNG LADY, if you're 5-foot-7 inches tall, it may interest you to know exactly 18 per cent of all girls in their 20s nationwide are likewise. SO YOU'D like to be a big fish in the littlest of ponds? Tut tut. Most important fish in the world, the herring, is a little fish in the biggest of ponds.

An Invitation To Bid The National Bank of Commerce in its capacity as Trustee under the will of C. V. Harris, announces that it intends to receive bids on the sale of a 220 acre tract of real estate located adjacent to 1-40 between U. S. Highway 45 and Highway 45 By-Pass bounded on the South by Wiley Parker Road.

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