Scott County Times from Forest, Mississippi • 1

Sctrtt (Coiirtv Tim ditors THE GROWTH OF A HUSTLING COMMUNITY VICTIM OF CAR-TRUCK Hosts Of Pay Last To Billie ACCIDENT Friends Respects Colbert CENTER OF TIMBER, INDUSTRY, CORN, POULTRY, LIVESTOCK, COTTON FOREST, MISSISSIPPI, WEDNESDAY, May 4, 1966 AT THE LEFT is the smashed Chevy II Station Wagon in which Mrs. Frank Colbert, was fatally injured Monday morning. The overturned poultry truck is at the right. (Photo by Joe Elkins.) REV. FRANK GUNN Rev.

Frank Gunn Accepts Call To Baptist Church Rev. Frank Gunn. pastor of the First Baptist Church in Lexington, has accepted a call to become pastor of the Forest Baptist Church, effective June 14. Rev. Gunn is a native of Indianola, where he graduated from high school.

He received his BA degree from Mississippi College and BD degree from the New Orleans Baptist Theo logical Seminary. He previously servedpastor- ates at the Georgetown Baptist church in Sunflower county. He is now serving as mod erator of the Holmes Baptist Association and he is secretary of the Holmes Pastors Conference. He is serving his third year as a trustee of William Carey College in Hattiesburg. Rev.

Gunn is an active mem ber of the Lexington Lions club where he is on the board of directors and has attained a two-year perfect attendance record. Mrs. Gunn, also a graduate of Miss. College, is the former Sandra Elizabeth Sandifer of Topeka. They have three children, Frank Jr.

7, Alicia 5, and David 2. Appeal Made For Additional Funds In Cancer Drive Have you made your contri bution to the Cancer Fund? Conscientious workers have made their calls but the drive is far short of its goal. The worker, perhaps, may have missed you, when they called. You may have told the worker that you needed to check your records and see what your bud get permitted you to donate to this particular cause. Whatever the reason, we.

of rorest, have failed toresnnnH adequately to this drive, a drive that will put our dollars to work to aid victims and finance research to control the death- dealing blow of cancer. Through the funds in the American Cancer Society, more and more people are being cured every day. Its education uro gram is gradually making the general public conscious of the. fact that cancer can be cured in one half of all cancer patients, if it is detected in time. If you will call Mrs.

Smith Tarrer or Mrs. Mariorie Mills. your donation will be picked ud and you can yet be counted in the fight against cancer. Should it be easier to dron your check in the mail, direct it to Miss Katherine Robertson, General Chairman of our city. UNPREDICTABLE Watch out for school kids.

motorists they weren't brought up to be run down. Notebook TRAGEDY, which reached its peak Monday in the loss of Bill i Joyce Colbert, has seemed to pile upon the Boyles- Colber a i 1 i several years ago Mr. Boyles barely survived a serious heart attack Mrs. Boyles has a chronic illness that limits her tornado March 3 destroyed their lakeside cabin in north Scott county we extend our sincere sympathy to the bereaved and pray that God will give them strength to carry on in the manner that Billie Joyce would have wanted. WE CANNOT remember a previous funeral in which a Catholic priest joined Prot estant ministers in it is well that spiritual leaders of both faiths, loyal to the same God and the same Jesus Christ, join hands in tributes to a departed loved one Frank Colbert's family is Catholic and Billie Joyce was Methodist it was the wish of the family that Father John Izral have a part in the service along with Dr.

B. M. Hunt, the Methodist pastor, and two former Methodist pastors here, Rev. E. A.

Kelly and Rev. Aubrey Smith. THE GAME and Fish Com mission reported 38 turkeys killed in Scott county during the recent season hunters reporting two kills the lim it were Elton Eady, Doug Carpenter, Roy Noble Lee, and James Walter Lee Forest Chapter OES will hold its stated meeting Thursday, May 5, at 7:30 at the Masonic Hall. One of our young friends came by one night and waved a fancy string of big bream in our face "I can't remember where I caught them" he said blandly and somehow, we cant even remember the guy's name. A NEW business in Forest is Gulf Finance Company, on Highway 80 the company operates in 23 Mississippi cities and has 95 offices in the southern states manager of the Forest office is Herbert Cor nelius, a native of Ethelsville, who is moving here from Greenville he and his wife.

who has been teaching school in Greenville, formal announcement from the company is inthis week's issue. ANNOUNCEMENT by the Leake county school board that the Lena school will be dis continued after the 1966-67 term will affect 21 students from Scott county County Supt. of Education C. M. Har rison said they will be re assigned to schools in the county Hill.

26.of Scoo- ba, who drowned on the Gulf Coast in an accident last week, was a nephew of Mrs. Cecil Miller of Forest. Joe V. Johnson, who was injured in i one-car accident on Highway 15 two weeks ago, is improving apidly at Lackey fetches were removed Tues. lay from head ir.

Johnson was en route home or the week end from his po rtion as a USDA meat inspector West Point. THE Sunflower Food Store ackpots Saturday total $750.00 choral festival at the lementary school Tuesday ght was enjoyed by a very ce congratula- 3ns to Mrs. Martha Hays, di- Jctor, for an excellent nro- am Harold Lackey, county terans service officer, ad-ses that applications for ed- ational assistance under the GI Bill are now available his office in his residence 535 Broad Street. For- Comans of For-t, route 4, won the $300 ney-Jungle Passport to Rich-Saturday this week the ssport is $50, plus 5,000 and Prize Stamps. Home Week is ng observed at the Harper -e Baptist church, to be cli-xed Sunday at the 11 a.m.

vice with special recogni- i of mothers and elderly pie We are asking that scribers, when sendingtheir ewals, also add their Post ce Zip Code under new illations, we must have the Codes on each mailing sten- by January 1 Coach Ken mlett and Dr. Edward Stuart new members of the Rotary J. HERE WILL be a meeting he Bienville Wildlife Club Continued on back page) of for of IggFLECIlMG VOLUME 27 Beaman King, Retired Forest Lumberman, Dies John Beaman King. 66. re tired Forest lumberman, died in a Jackson hospital early last Wednesday after suffering a stroke Tuesday.

Mr. King was the original owner of King Lumber Company of Forest, a firm be founded soon after World War U. The business was sold a few years ago to Edward Gaddis. who still operates it as King Lumber Company. Mr.

King was a longtime member of the Forest Metho dist Church. He had lived in Scott county all his life Funeral services were held at the Ott Lee Funeral Home Chapel Thursday at 2 p.m. with interment following in Eastern cemetery. Officiating ministers were his pastor, Dr. B.

M. Hunt. and former pastor, Dr. Gilbert Oliver. He leaves his wife, Mrs Eunice King of Forest; one son, M.

B. King, Birmingham, his mother, Mrs. I. E. King, Forest; two brothers, T.

R. King and Iro King, Forest; four sisters, Mrs. Bernice Walters and Mrs. Mary Lou Saxon, Forest; Mrs. Kathrine Rape and Mrs.

Juanita Mills, both of Mobile, Ala. Active pallbearers were Ed Gaddis, Lewis Eure. Pete Den nis, Robert Marveggio, Jack Eady, and Charles Blossom. Honorary pallbearers were members of the Young Men's Bible Class of the Forest Meth odist Church. Crop Adjustment Signup Is Still Open In County W.

L. Culpepper, Chairman of the Scott Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee, reminded larmers today that signup for the new cropland adjustment program is still open, even though signup dates for the feed grain and upland cotton program signups have already closed. The program is designed to fill a need not quite met by the annual acreage allotment and diversion programs in a-chieving and maintaining supply-demand balance for farm products, ft is also expected to provide more hunting, fishing, and other opportunities for outdoor recreation. 1 CAP is especially attractive tp farmers who want (1) to shift from production of sur plus crops to other activities, to retire gradually from farming while continuing to live on the farm, (3) to continue working off the farm, or (4) to take advantage of other local employment opportunities. Farmers participating in CAP will receive adjustment payments related to the value of the crops normally produced (Continued on back page) production.

Benefits available to growers participating in the 1966 annual diversion programs include di version and price support pay ments, wheat certificates, and price support loans. Additional acres in the county totaling 343 acres already have been scheduled for diversion under the long-term cropland adjustment program, for which tne signup is still open. CAP applications also may be filed at the ASCS county office through May 13, 1966. Adjustment payments are nr. fered under this f- diverting entire bases or al lotments; cost-share conser vation payments are made shift the land taken Out of mw Sad and solemn, a host of friends crowded the sanctuary of the Forest Methodist Church Tuesday to join in tribute to Mrs.

Frank Colbert, 31, victim of a car-truck accident Monday on Highway 35. There were so many flowers they overflowed into the vestibule and required three truck-loads for transfer from funeral home to church. Her pastor, Dr. B. M.

Hunt, two former pastors, and Father John Izral of St. Michael's Catholic church, all participated in respects. Rev. E. A.

Kelly, now retired but supplying the Harrisville Methodist Church, read the 23rd Psalm and comforting verses from John. There was another prayer from Rev. Aubrey Smith, now pastor of the Yazoo City Methodist Church. Said Father Izral: "Jesus said I am the resurrection and the life whosoever believeth in me shall never He praised Mrs. Colbert as a wonderful example of "Christian daughter, Christian wife, and Christian mother." "Let us live our lives like hers," he added, "so when the Lord calls us, He can say what He told Billie Joyce well done, thou good and faithful servant." Her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Hilton Boyles, were aided by old friends, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Guillaumin, formerly of Forest and now of Pineville, La. Her husband, Mr.

Colbert, walked sorrowfully on the arm of Richard Ware, of Har-perville, brother in law of Mr. Boyles. Of the four Children, only eight year old CytftMa was able to attend the services. Lisa, 6, is under treatment at Lackey Hospital and Jan, 4, is at Baptist Hospital in Jackson where Monday she underwent surgery for a skull fracture. Frank, in, 2, was at home with friends.

Dr. Hunt eulogized Mrs. Colbert's life on earth and suggested that she has earned a place "on God's welcoming committee in heaven." Organ music was furnished by Mrs. Chester MitchelL Until time for the services. Mrs.

Colbert's body -dressed in pink, her favorite color -lay in state in the Ott Lee Chapel. Pallbearers were Sonny Easom, Hal Polk, Dr. Leo Russell, Weems Gilbert, Billy Gibbs, and Jimmy Goodwin. The procession left the church for Eastern cemetery where her casket was lowered into the good earth and her soul was consigned to God. The tragedy occurred with stunning suddenness Monday morning alout 8 o'clock as Mrs.

Colbert and her four children were driving to the elementary school. In their Chevy station wagon, she was headed west on Marion Boulevard and collided on Highway 35 with a B. C. Rogers poultry truck going north. City Officer Kenneth Mav.

on duty during school hours at the crossing, said he was on the highway shoulder motioning the truck on and when he turned he saw the terrible impact. He assumed, he said, that Mrs. Colbert would stop at the highway and wait for his signal as she had done so many times in the past. The truck, driven by 22 year old Curtiss Smith of Morton, struck the station wagon at the left front door, jarring Mrs. Colbert out the right door and on the pavement.

Empty poultry coops from the truck spilled on her body. Mr. Smith shed tears as he went into shock himself over a tragedy he couldnt avoid. Little Frank HI, on the front seat with his mother, was pinned beneath the steering wheel and windshield. The three girls were all ca the back seat.

The station wagon was knocked off the highway. The truck overturned on the highway shoulder. Officer May radioed for an ambulance. Patrolman John Coleman, who intercepted die message, carried the children to Lackey Hospital. Mrs.

Kermit Reynolds, a reg istered nurse who lives near the intersection, gave first aid to Mrs. Colbert until arrival rf the ambulance and she rode NUMBER 18 Lake ACD Club Plans Womanless Wedding Friday A "Womanless Wedding" will be presented by members of the Lake Attendance Center Devel opment Club in the gymnasium Friday night, May 6 at 8 p.m. Ronnie Roebuck and his band of Union, with vocalist Jimmy Hinson will furnish musical en tertainment. with additional performances by local grr-ips. Starring in the wedding ill be Marcus Hollingsworth asioe lovely bride, and Gilbert Ware as the nervous groom.

Gerald Monk will officiate at the 'ceremony." Other participants include Welch Hollingsworth and James Leach, flower girls; Leon Ma-bry and Dude Vance, brides maids; Marzene Vance, voca list; Billy Putnam and J. F. Regis, ring-bearers; Roy Aultman. mother of the bride; Eugene Wooten. father of the bride; Wallace Odom, moth er of the groom; A.

F. Hollingsworth, father of the eroom: Bennie Gene Hollines worth. grandmother of the groom; Jake Hollingsworth. grandmother of the bride; Jimmy Robertson, aunt of the bride, and Harold Hollingsworth role." Admission will be fifty and twenty-five cents, with pro ceeds to go toward improving the school grounds. According to Aultman.

nres- ident of the Development Club, immediate plans are for cov ered sidewalks between build ings at the school, and con struction of a regulation track field. The public is urged to attend for an evening of topnotch en tertainment. Hearing On Game Laws To Be Held In Jackson May 10 One of the most informative public hearings ever held by the Game and Fish Commission will take place in the auditorium of the Woolfolk State Office Building in Jackson. Scheduled for May the tenth, the proceedings will get under way at 10:00 a.m. For the visiting sportsmen.

the Commission will have a program that will point up the work, aims, and dreams of the organization. FORMER RESIDENTS INJURED IN WRECK Lamar Abernathy. Van Eadv. and Miss Sue Barfield were in jured Saturday night in a one-car accident near Las Vegas, Nevada, it was reported here. They were in a new car recently purchased by Mr.

Ab ernathy. All three were hospitalized with painful injuries although they are not considered critical. Military Rites Thursday For Sgt. Thompson Funeral services for Ser geant First Class Billy Albert Thompson, 34, who was killed in action in Viet Nam April 24. will be at 2 p.m.

Thursday, May 5, from the Pine Ridge Baptist Church in Newton County. Burial with full military honors will be in the church cemetery. Rev. Cecil Laird. Rev.

Cecil Pumphrey and an Army chaplain will officiate. Personnel from Ft. Rucker, Ala. will pro vide a firing squad for the military service. Sgt.

Thompson had been in Viet Nam five and a half months and in the Army for 17 years. He was a native of Newton County, and attended school at Lake. He was a member nf Vf Baptist Church, He is Survived by two sons. Billy and Jeff ery and a daughter Cynthia of Mill Valley, his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

John D. Thompson of Lake, five brothers, Howard of Whittier, Buford of U. S. Navy stationed in Orange Park. C.

B. of U. S. M. C.

stationed in Baltimore, Charles of Newton, and Harry Thompson of Lake; and three sisters, Mrs. Robert Heathcock of Dyer, Mrs. V. J. Pennington of Lake, and Mrs.

Gregory McDonald of Newton. The body, which arrived Tuesday night by air. will be at the family home in Lake until time for the funeral. Ott and Lee Funeral Home of Forest is in charge of arrangements. "The number of people who attend concerts in the U.S.

ex ceeds that of those who go to ball games," says a statisti cian. This is because women drag their husbands to concerts, but men dont drag their wives to ball games. SAM EVANS, of the Lake Attendance Center track team, won second place in the South Mississippi Class track meet in the 440-yard dash. He will compete in the overall state finals at Hinds Junior College Friday. i ESQ fro 1 5Esi 15 55,1 pi pffmrn a I ferns 8c5 iS Sra Rules, Projects At Country Club Okayed By Board Directors of the Forest Coun try Club Monday night dis cussed plans for the new clubhouse and swimming pool and adopted new regulations concerning memberships and "non-residents" entitled to privileges.

President Henry Melichar said the $100,000 FHA-insured loan is now on deposit and ef forts are being made to expedite construction work. The membership voted to increase dues to $12.00 monthly when construction starts. Secretary Joe Clarke said current active membership is 137 and applications are on file for shares of stock to qualify for membership. Directors defined a "non resident" entitled to play golf on a green fee bsis as a person whose home address Is other than Forest or Forest RFD, or lives at least five miles beyond the Forest city limits. Non-residents may use other facilities, the directors voted.

only if in the company of a bona fide member of the club. Reports were received of several local persons who are not members but have been using the facilities. Cards will be sent to those persons ad vising they are violating rules and extending them an invitation to apply for membership. Because of a technical delay in issuance of additional shares of stock, it was voted that those applying for stock may make down payments and apply for membership in the club, as suming immediately the payment of dues if approved. Horace Epting, pool chair man, said the present dooI has been cleaned out and re-filled and is ready for use.

Charles Palmer, clubhouse chairman, said ThomDson Yeager of Raleigh were low bidders on the new clubhouse, but negotiations are in progress for adjustments. The architects are Perkins and Mattingly, of Jackson. Mrs. Jagger Chosen Vice-President of Nurses Association Mississippi today is iust reaching the national level of 46 years ago, so far as the ratio of nurses to people is concerned. Mississippi has about 142 nurses per 100,000 population, or just about the 140 per 100.000 the nation as a whole had in 1920.

This lag between the state and the nation was emphasized at the recent annual meeting, in Jackson. Officers elected at the meet ing and who are now serv mg- include Mrs. Marion Bas sett, president; Mrs. Margar et Jagger, vice president; Mrs. Lucille Little, treasurer: and two new members of the board- Mrs.

Vonda Webb, and outgoing president. Mrs. Elizabeth Graves. All are residents of Jackson Weems Bill Would Change Voting On Superintendent Representative Mack Weems has introduced a bill in the legislature to bar electors of the Forest Municipal Separate School District from voting in the election of the county superintendent of education. The County Superintendent administers the county unit schools outside the separate school district.

Mr. Weems' proposal was in the form of an amendment to House Bill 947, providing for the same situation in certain other counties. The House adopted 947 and the weems amendment but the bill was held on a motion to re consider, which delays final action. CAROL BUNTIN Carol Buntin, 20, Is Chosen Forest Miss Hospitality Carol Buntin. 20.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Buntin, has been chosen Miss Hospi tality for Forest. She will preside over the hospitality uro gram here and compete for the state title in July on the Gulf Coast. A junior at Miss.

State University, where she is majoring in data processing, Miss Buntin is a 1963 graduate of Forest High School. She attended East Central Junior College at Decatur two years. At Miss. State, she is a member of the choir which recently completed a concert tour. She was chosen a beauty at t-ast Central and was an honor student.

She was a member of the EC JC choir. At Forest High, she was a member of the Beta Club, a majorette with the band three years, and in the choir. COMPLETES COURSE Army Cpl. Other T. Measells.

son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome E. Measells, Star Route. Mor ton, completed his high school education through the Armed Forces Institute's General Ed ucation Development (GED) program while assigned to the 94th Artillery in Germany, April 21.

fx 7210 Scott Acres Out Of Production According to final reports. farmers in Scott County have signed up to take 7.210 acres out of production this year. W. L. Culpepper, Chairman of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Commit tee, said today.

The acreages are to be di verted from production of feed grains and upland cotton. Stocks feed grains are still more than sufficient, and cotton is a serious problem in terms of oversupply. The current signup for such programs ended Friday, Apr. 8. i here were 340 signed ud to divert 4265 acres of feed grains payment, including 4239 acres of corn and 26 acres grain sorghum and 618 farms were signed up to take 2945 acres of upland cotton out of production to a conserving use.

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