The Yazoo Herald from Yazoo City, Mississippi • 1

IF I Mississippi's largest weekly circulation -over 5000! 10 70 Constructive Conservative Dedicated to the Service of Yazoo and Her People Volume XCVIII Our 98th Year' 24 Pages-Two Sections Yazoo City, Mississippi. February 19, 1970 10c Single Copy Number 40 1VU, --nif grout is Husband charged with murder Oscar Reed 35 year old Negro, was shot to death early Monday night. According to County Attorney Griffin Norquist, Arthur Cobb, about 70, is in jail charged with firing a 32 pistol two times at Reed. The shooting followed an argument about the younger Negro's attention to Cobb's wife. The shooting took place at a cafe in the 300 block on Mound.

Housing Authority gives city UR report i ,1 if U7 'it i give. omore! Trrrgpi HEART FUND hJl I i I MIW DIRECT YAZOO HEART FUND Magee, chairman, and Raymond Long, assistant chairman. Dr. Harold five Dy IIIUM umy sorf fund campaign on for the 1970 the request of Dr. Magee Yazoo County's a Fund chairman and I Magee urging all Yazooans to mail their Heart Fund contributions "as soon as possible." Serving as treasurer for the 1970 Heart Fund will be Mrs.

Clayton Crocker. Memorial gifts chairman for Yazoo County is Robert E. Coker. they ask all persons in Yazoo County who want to give to the 1970 Heart Fund to mail their gift to "1970 Heart Fund," P. O.

Box 777, Yazoo City, 39194. "This campaign is directly dependent upon the interest and enthusiasm individual Yazoo Countains have for the Heart Fund and its goals," said Dr. bdairrnan, ttaymonu JHro.i' 'i miiVffi nn il in iinnn Trail Court enters not guilty pleas from 4 Not guilty pleas were made at the arraignment proceedings held for ft u- persons named in the eight made by the grand jury last week. Circuit Judge M. M.

McGowan will be in Yazoo City today (Thursday) and may set trial dates for the one white person and three Negroes accused of crimes. They include Bobby Spiars, white, who is charged with breaking and entering the King's Daughters Hospital; Roosevelt Williams, Negro, charged with murder of his girl friend and Arcurtis Shanklin and Nathanial Williams, both Negroes, accused of burglary and larceny of several places in the city and county. Judge McGowan accepted the guilty plea of Roosevelt Turner who was indicted over a year ago for the armed robbery of Bonney's Package Store. Judge McGowan sentenced Turner to three years in jail, but granted him probation because he has been diagnosed as having tuberculosis in both lungs. Turner is now residing in the state sanitorium at Magee.

Hey've designed an campaign to collect money for the 1970 ad. No door-to-door a for money will be The final report and recommendations on the Delta Plaza Urban Renewal project was accepted by the City Council Monday night following a detailed explanation by D. A. Tuttle, director of Urban Renewal. The City Council set Monday, March 16 for a special meeting to set the date for a public hearing which is required to precede the anticipated bond issue vote.

Mr. Tuttle announced he had received a wire Monday afternoon revealing $566,135 has been added to the capital grant reservation for Yazoo City's downtown Urban Renewal project. He said the wire was from Lawrence Cox, assistant secretary from the Department of Housing Development, Washington, D.C. Mr. Tuttle said this makes a total of $2,815,135 in federal funds which would be available for the Yazoo City project.

In a covering letter attached to the 33-page written report, Dutro Ervin, chairman of the Housing Authority of Yazoo City, revealed the downtown modernization project has been approved by federal officials in Atlanta, Ga. subject to "one or two minor fiscal revisions" and is scheduled for approval by federal authorities in Washington as soon as funds become available. Mr. Tuttle read the entire report to the Council members and discussed the various charts and data sheets which were included in the 33 pages. He said that the Housing Authority would need at least six weeks for an information campaign so that the general public could be informed on the details of the project.

Mayor Jeppie Barbour said before getting a bond vote the city officials needed to have i to year. Instead, BELZOM ARTIST HERE TODAY Mrs. T.C. Pepper and sculpture Yazoo art group to hear Mrs. Pepper IS signs Jerry Brown elected head YHS coach 1 members, reports from the various study committees recently set up on such matters as sewage treatment plant, street improvements, city limits expansion, recreational programs and alternates to federal Urban Renewal.

The latter topic was assigned to a committee headed by Alderman Floyd Johnson, outspoken critic of UR. Other members of the Council are in charge of. the other committees and all agreed that each study committee could make a report within the next four weeks. Chairman Ervin said the Housing Authority report "represents about 52 months of hard work by lots of people." He said he was "glad" to see the study and planning phase of the Urban Renewal project come to an end, but wanted the Council to know there was much left to do and the Housing Authority would continue to assist the City in bringing the plan before the people. All members of the Council expressed appreciation for the work that the Housing Authority had done and several offered congratula.

jiis for a "wonderful plan." In other action it was agreed that Mayor Barbour and Warren Rayburn, superintendent of recreation, would attend a state meeting at the University of Mississippi on neighborhood recreational plans in early March. It was agreed that the anti-rabies campaign wherein the city assists dog owners to get vaccinations for their animals would be held early in March. The Council agreed that Mayor Barbour would be chairman of the city's Civil Defense set up with the Citizens Band Radio club to be the organization. The city has to work out a joint plan with the county board of supervisors before Civil Defense authority can be set up and be eligible to receive federal funds. City Clerk Albert Evans read a petition from Willie James Maples asking permission to put a mobile home on Lot 50 of Westland subdivision.

The Continued on page two exhibited in Bristol, Tenn. and in Jackson. A hanging iron construction, "The Broken Frame," was hung in the recent Frontal Images National Show at Municipal Art Gallery in Jackson. She will have an exhibit at Ricks Memorial Library. Her one man shows have been in libraries at Greenville, Rolling Fork, Belzoni, In-dianola, Canton and Sardis.

Her displays range from miniatures to figures as tall as three feet from cement. iset again i'am County Chapter of signed up ap-llyl members at its ikal meeting Thurs- it initials stand for afChoice in the United According to J. W. lie of the organizers, lie being made to al interested parties in ty. Plans call for a be installed in the 15th street next to Mrs.

T. C. Pepper, artist and sculptress of Belzoni, will be guest speaker today (Thursday) at a meeting of the Yazoo Art Association to be held at 2:30 p.m. at the Yazoo Valley Electric Power building. Mrs.

Pepper who has been interested in drawing and painting since a very young child, renewed her interest after her children grew up. Taking up sculpture later, she started with Leon Koury several summers ago. Her first piece was a garden figure of Peter Pan. Mrs. Pepper's efforts in the sculpture field can definitely be described as successful.

She has since the summer of 1963. "We are fortunate to have a man of his ability to serve in this capacity for the school session 1970-71," said H. C. Kelly, Superintendent, in announcing the promotion. AT HOME FROM DUTY IN VIETNAM Michael Saylor, who is married to the former Marsha Gelman, has returned to the States after four years combat duty in Vietnam.

Mrs. Saylor met him in Los Angeles and after a visit here with her mother, Mrs. Esther Gelman, the couple is in Millington, Tenn. where he is stationed at the Air Force base. Jerry G.

Brown was elected tc the position of hea' football coach and athletic dj-ector ol the Yazoo City public schools for the school session 1970-71. He assumed his new duties Tuesday. He is filling the position vacated by Sammy Howard who moved to Columbus, Ga. Coach Brown graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1963. He played varsity football at the University of Mississippi from 1958 to 1962, earning three varsity letters.

He played on the Sugar Bowl team twice and the Cotton Bowl team once. Coach Brown has been serving as line coach and teaching in the Yazoo City public schools Stag's Barber shop, stated persons are Mend a meeting next Mrs. Bob West III, the former Mary Frances Fouche, a student at Mississippi State University was named a President Schoolor the past semester. Mrs. West is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Travis Fouche of Benton. Mrs. John Graeber and Mrs. Terry Hollowell were in Memphis last week teb.

23 at 7 p.m. at the Electric Power Alive and "Yazoo's Doing Well" 7 53. jags I mm la SAYS yor Barbour replies Welcome to: BUN and BURGER to anti-UR position -Yazoo City Junior Auxiliary EDITOR'S NOTE: Mayor Barbour issued the ing statement too late for the deadline in LhI 8 "erald which told of the petition Wby 1800 citizens ask.ng the to w.thdraw and 2 for a federal government grant 'oan to modernize the downtown district. bthp13 Mayor and Aldermen have been asked CDlanrnelCitizens Aainst HiSher Taxes t0 d0o4 Yal rt Urb3n RCneWal Prgram fr This Urban CLf ihTeir suPPrters are opposed to Until about can understand their feelings. Renewal I mnths ag0' 1 also opposed Urban dontown hnteTC8m2ed the need t0 revitalize our without Felrli ght we could do wha was needed for a Plan that about two years 1 l00ked only lli Trovide ParkinS and traffic flow reasMcouM 1 chaned my mind for one hatenePrt another way that would give ArnajorrPfltafCostwecan afford.

0f Fekral cSr PPosin Urban Renewal is fear kws already a i nimum waSe and civil rights Renewal rL to us regardless of Urban result from iTrh Cntro1 of any magnitude that standards ThP? JRenewal concerns building efore they wll were drawn up locally. approvl bv stted to Atlanta they were doners and Aldermen the Housing Com-mHnZny merchants. We will be Te standards, but they are not the l0rmadeto ml fards' they are They are Additionallv 0Ur People believe that Urban will raise taxes, possibly as much as two mills. But don't forget that the city must have revenue on which to operate. This money can come from several sources, but let's look at three major ones sales tax, property tax on commercial buildings and property tax on residences.

When business is good, revenue from sales tax and commercial property tax will be high. This reduces the tax load that must be carried by homes. But when business is bad the burden shifts so that homes must be taxed higher. (For example, in the city budget for 1969-70 sales tax is expected to produce $250,000 or 29 percent of the city's revenues. For the first four months of this fiscal year sales tax receipts are off 19 percent.

If this continues the city will be short almost $50,000 by September. That would result in either a cut back of city services or a three and one-half mill tax increase.) To protect and increase sales tax revenue we must keep local money at home and attract shoppers from nearby counties. This requires more parking, better traffic patterns, a more attractive downtown and more competition among our merchants. Urban Renewal will provide this, and at a cost we can pay. There may be other acceptable means of upgrading our downtown.

I haven't seen anything better than Urban Renewal, but I will support a better way if anyone can show me nne. Alderman Floyd Johnson is heading a committee to investigate other ways that don't involve Federal money. I ask anyone who has such a plan to submit it to Alderman Johnson's group so that it may be given full consideration. In the meantime I am supporting our present Urban Renewal plan. 1 i I owwsiK -'V IT 'i" iiiiilm 1 i'idmi ir BEST AT BACH Patricia Stoner, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. J. W. Stoner, both students of Mrs. H.

R. Morris. Superior ratings were accorded only 20 of the some 90 students from Meridian, Brandon, Yazoo City, Clinton, Ellisville and Jackson. The top rating students will return to Jackson Saturday to be presented in recital at Municipal Art Gallery. Three Yazoo piano students received superior ratings at the Bach Festival held recently in Jackson to encourage the playing of Bach and other baroque composers.

They are, from left, Suzette McCullough, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Adams III, pupil of Mrs.

Bill Stanford; Carol Joy Yates, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. James F. Yates and true tha taxes witout benefitting the 1UI iew years Urban Renewal J. F.

BARBOUR III, Mayor.