a Taxpayer's Suit Up for Hearing In Marion Court Tomorrow Cecil U. Edmonds' third taxpayer suit is scheduled for pre(liminary hearing by Chancellor Lee Ward at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Marion. The suit names the West Memphis Utility Commission and its Board of Commissioners as defendants. board includes Mayor Howell chairman, and the commissioners, B.
J. Lambert W. K. Ingram, P. M.
Dacus, John N. Wood, and Charles J. Upton, The suit charges that the commissioners have directed funds into firms in which they have financial interest. It charges that the commission doesn't legally exist, since it was created under a city ordinance which does not conform to state statutes. Edmonds is asking a temporary restraining order and a permanent injunction.
Chancellor Ward has under advisem*nt his decision on Edmonds' suit against the City Council, tried Thursday. White Mule, Not Vodka But It Had $25 Kick purchase of what he said thought was two half-pints of vodka cost John Pendergrast, 53, of 3528 Hendricks, $25 fine today on a charge of violating the liquor law. Deputy A. L. Guasco testified that he saw one bottle bulging from Pendergrast's pocket, then found the other on his person, AS Pendergrast approached a parked car on Henrietta Road, near Bartlett, yesterday.
The bourbon-labeled bottles contained white corn whisky, Guasco told Sessions Judge Willard Dixon. RECREATION WORK HONORED Commissioner Stanley Dillard, left, receives a certificate for outstanding service to the recreation movement. Presenting it are H. S. Lewis, center, parks superintendent, and Marion Hale, recreation superintendent.
The presentation was in De 'Soto Park, where Dillard started in recreation work as a playground director. Hale started there too. is given annually by the National Recreation Association. Dillard also was elected an honorary member of NRA's Southern District. Motorist Fined $10, Passed Out in Car Deputy A.
L. Guasco testified today that he found. Charles Martin, 32, of 1739 Hanson, "drunk and asleep, but. not under the wheel," in a parked car on Henrietta Road near Bartlett at 9:30 a.m. yesterday.
Martin, who told Sessions Judge Willard Dixon that he had a few beers at home before starting out with friends, was fined $10 on a public drunkenness charge. In Your Memphis' Police Chief Is First a Family Man By THE PRESS-SCIMITAR VISITOR Highland Park Place at Highland Police Chief James Macdonald, 3419 Highland Park Place, is a family man. That's what his wife says. "My husband has a full-time, 24-hour job, but he doesn't neglect his family," said Mrs. Macdonald.
"He spends almost all his spare time at home with us, either playing baseball with the' kids in the front yard or doing steps, Jim plays pee-wee basesomething around the ball in the Presbyterian Junior The Macdonalds househree Baseball League. children: Ann, 18, Don, 14, and The Macdonalds are active Jim, 9. members of Buntyn PresbyRecently graduated from East terian Church, where they have High, Ann will Missis- been members for 13 years. sippi Southern College, in Hat- Mrs. Macdonald is superintendtiesburg, fall.
She ent of the five-year-old Sunday probably major in physical School department, and Mr. education, since she tentatively Macdonald is a deacon in the plans to be a physical therapist. church. Don, a ninth grader at East Mrs. Macdonald is president High, is a three-letter man.
He of the Memphis and Shelby lettered in football, basketball, County Union of the King's and baseball last year, He is Daughters, presently attending the Memphis State basketball clinic for the The Press-Scimitar Visitor month of June. will return to Highland Park Following in his brother's Place tomorrow. KELVINATOR Automatic WASHER FREE ALL THE "No You carry get MEMPHIS PRESS-SCIMITAR, MONDAY JUNE 29, 1932 Rough Road Blamed For Car Accident Clinton Benton 28, of 133 Peterson Lake, today blamed rough Houston, Levy Road, south of for his car going to the wrong side and hitting an embankment at 4 a.m. June 19, Deputy Vern Hamm admitted that the road "is fairly rough," but charged that Benton took curve at 50 mph." "and told me at the scene he went to sleep Sessions at the Judge wheel." Willard Dixon 10 fined Benton $15 on a reckless driving charge. Manners Make Friends You can be pretty sure they will be bored if you and your husband are indifferent players and you invite a couple who are alexperts for an evening of bridge.
Costs No More To Own The Finest" BALDWIN ORGANS PIANOS STUBER'S 64 S. Second at Union JA 6-5871 INNERSPRING MATTRESS For Only Right Sleep $1595 Furniture by FLEMING 3574 Park 2301 S. Third OLD FAITHFUL for the 46th time is Harry Thomas, chief electrician for the City of Memphis, shown going over blueprints for the booths to be used at the annual Fourth of July picnic at St. Peter's Orphanage, McLean and Poplar. Next to Thomas is Sister Jean Clare of St.
Peter's, and on her left Fight Is Fatal to Man-Murder Charge Filed Tragic End to Outing by Two Men Who Were Neighbors Two men, who had been four years, started out on hour later, one was dead on a murder charge. Police say Paul Allen Shorts A four-year scholarship for college was p.r sented William Y. McCaslin Jr. of 3246 Park, son of a Ford employe, in De a rborn, yesterday." The Messick High graduate was one of 70 sons and daughters of Ford em- McCaslin ployes receiving Ford scholarships. Glasses and wading don't together, as any 10-year-oid knows.
So, Billy Fields, 2241 Tunis, BR. 2-3249, laid his new glasses on a bench beside the Peabody wading pool Friday afternoon. When he returned. he told his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Curtis Fields, the glasses were gone. Tho he doesn't need glasses to wade, Billy does need them. LeMoyne College in Memphis is one of four Tennessee leges to share a $36,525 grant from the United Negro College Fund, second allocation this year. in the grant are Fisk University, Nashville, Lane College, Jackson and Knoxville College. Memphis Pilot In Plane Incident A Memphis pilot for Delta Airlines, J.
H. (Jack) Sargent, safely landed a two-engine Convair with 28 passengers in Little Rock after a faulty signal system indicated the landing gear was not locked. Sargent circled Little Rock for three hours before deciding to land at the Little Rock Air Force Base on a foam-slicked runway early Sunday morning. The landing gear held, but passengers continued on to Kansas City aboard another plane. Twenty-two persons boarded the plane earlier in Memphis.
Driving Teachers Go to School Driver training teachers from the Mid- were flocking in to Memphis State University today to begin an instructors course under scholarships sponsored jointly by the University and the Esso Safety Foundation. The teachers will ge their behind-the-wheel training at the Memphis Police Beginner's Driving Range at the Fair- is Green Walker. On Mr. Thomas' left is John Gynn. Both are city electricians who are also aiding in the work.
Standing on a el ladder installing light bulbs and taping wires are (left) Lewis Jasper and Billy Wright, both of whom live at the Orphanage. -Press-Scimitar Staff Photo by Bill Leaptrott 85th Orphanage Picnic Planned On July 4th At St. Peter's neighbors and friends for a tour of beer taverns. An and the other was arrested Visited Taverns Wilson, 37, of 2424 Durby, yard foreman the Whittington Lumber cat died from injuries he received' in a fight in front of Farmers Market, 2861. Lamar, at 10:30 Saturday night.
Harold McBroome, 37, of 2419 Shelley, a house painter, was arraigned in City Court today on a murder charge. Capt. W. W. Wilkinson, homicide chief, says McBroome admits fighting with Wilson, but he was acting in selfdefense after Wilson struck him on the head because he would not buy Wilson two cans of beer.
A plea of not guilty to murder was entered by J. E. Madden, attorney for McBroome. McBroome did not testify. Judge Boushe held him to the state, did not fix bond.
Mr. Wilson died at Methodist Hospital at 11 Saturday night. Physicians said his windpipe was crushed and was broken in several places. Visited Taverns Police quote McBroome as saying they visited several taverns drinking beer. When they reached the Farmers Market around 10:30 p.m.
Wilson was broke and asked McBroome for a loan or to buy some beer. "When I refused Wilson a loan he attacked me, striking me on the head." McBroome told gohomicide detectives. "He grabbed me by the throat and I beat him down to the pavement," McBroome said. McBroome left Wilson lying on the pavement, drove home, changed his shirt and went to a drive-in for coffee where he was arrested. Police say the fight was witnessed by three persons who did not think at the time that Wilson was seriously injured.
Wilson Wife Is Stunned The dead man's wife, Mrs. Evelyn Wilson, said today could not, understand what happened. husband and Mr. McBroome were in the front yard of our home talking and laughing around 10 p.m. Saturday.
They said they were going to have a few beers and an hour later they called me to the hospital." Mrs. Wilson said there had never been any trouble before between her husband and Broome. Mr. Wilson wag born in Wheeler, but had lived in Memphis for the past 12 years. He was a veteran of World War II, having served in the European area.
He was a Baptist. Defendant Is Father McBroome is married and the father of a 5-year-old boy. His wife is expecting another child. Besides his wife, Mr. Wilson leaves a daughter, Debra Jean; stepdaughters, Phyllis Ann Williams and Rebecca Sue Williams; a stepson, Hugh Allen Williams, all of Memphis; his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Claude Wilson 'of Booneville, Mem- a brother, E. R. Wilson of phis, and two sisters, W. W.
Cawthon of Memphis, and Mrs. Horace Stephenson of Columbus, Miss. Services are to be held at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow at National Funeral Home. Burial in For- grounds.
est Hill. Points for Parents By Edyth Thomas Wallace Not This This The Mother: "I've timed myself Mother: "Baby loves to lie and I've gotten it down to and. kick awhile after he has where I can bathe and get his bath. See him smile at Baby down for his nap in me when I talk to him. Aren't eight minutes flat." babies fun?" Tense, hurrying mothers do not have as happy babies as do relaxed mothers who take time to enjoy them.
For the 85th consecutive year, St. Peter's Orphanage picnic will be the big Memphis event on the July Fourth program. The annual event will be from noon to midnight next Saturday, July 4. As usual in an election year, the picnic will draw candidates for office, who will solicit votes. St.
Peter's is at Poplar and McLean, and there is plenty of off-street parking on the grounds. No admission to the grounds, but plenty of opportunity to spend money to help the Sisters take care of the youngsters. Msgr. J. Harold Shea is general chairman, with Jimmy Disalvo lay chairman.
Msgr. Louis Kemphues is honorary as, chairman. There will be ravioli, spaghetti, Italian pizza pie, barbecue and other good things to eat. Monte Robinson and Joe Barzizza are in charge of food. There will be rides for children and all sorts of games.
Staked Out On Waterfront Officers were staked out at various boat docking places along the Memphis waterfront today, on the lookout for a Kentuckian wanted for murder. Detective Chief Charles Young said the sheriff of Hickman County, had requested Memphis officers to be on the lookout for an Indian, Taylor Walker, 53, wearing overalls and a khaki shirt, who escaped in a 16-foot boat with a 25-horse motor after a knifing-slaying in Hickman County. "He is armed and dangerous and probably will not be taken alive." the Hickman sheriff It was thought that the man might have to stop at Memphis to refuel. He had been traced downstream as far as Tiptonville. Land Owner Opposes Widening of 51 N.
State Highway Department had received one protest today in connection with the widening of Highway 51 N. to make it four lanes between Memphis and Millington. The Highway 51 N. project has been in the "promise" stage for eight years. Construction is to begin shortly after Jan.
1, Mc-1960. Joe Forgione, thru his John W. McCall, filed a protest against the widening and asked a public hearing or conference in connection with land he owns at 6033 Highway 51 N. The hearing was set for 9 a.m. 21 at Mempublic, phis, with Howard C.
Vaden of the Right-of-Way division to conduct it. Area involved is the 5.776 miles from Fite Road to the south city limits of Millington. Molester of Child Gets Life Term Ernest Dickerson, 24, negro, of 1489 Silver, pleaded guilty in Criminal Court today to a charge of assault and battery on a female under 12 and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Asst. Atty.
Gen. E. L. Hutton told the jury that Dickerson had been entrusted as baby sitter with the care of a 2-year-old negro girl by her parents and had molested her Feb. 24.
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