TheClarksdale Press Register Saturday Sunday, June 28-29, 1980 Page 3A everol miamedl icfmenfs ODDO in only 2,400 meals were served during the period and the church incured expenses of only $409. In Jackson, a federal grand jury indicted James W. Miggins of Canton on charges of submitting phony invoices for more than $9,000 in reimbursem*nts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture through the state Department of Education's food service program in Hazlehurst. Miggins pleaded innocent to the charges and was released on his own recognizance.
Two patrol officers suspended The newly elected officers of the Clarksdale Rotary Club, for the 1980-81 year are (from left) the Rev. Richard Clark, secretary; Mike Tyner, Incoming president, Joe Gibbs, outgoing president, and Ed Peaco*ck, president-elect. The new officers will take office July 1. --Photo by White JACKSON (AP) Several Mississippians, including a minister, former supervisor and a federal agency official, have been named in grand jury indictments listing charges that range from fraud to embezzlement. The federal grand jury indictments made public Thursday included charges that C.
Arthur Mcintosh, an escrow agent for the Farmers Home Administration, embezzled more than $7,000 from the agency's loan fund last year. Federal grand juries in Oxford and Jackson, investigating misuse of funds for federal financed meal programs for Mississippi children, indicted the Rev. Louis Henderson Bell, pastor of a Starkville church on embezzlement, and James W. Miggins of Canton for fraud. In addition, former DeSoto County supervisor Will Renfro of Southaven was indicted by the panel at Oxford on multiple counts of racketeering and mail fraud.
Mcintosh, who was arrested and released on bond Thursday, allegedly embezzled the agency funds by making false loans payable either to himself or to creditors to cover his personal expenses. Bell, also freed on bond following his arrest, was charged with filing false reimbursem*nt statements for $4,000 while operating the Summer Food Service Program for Children in 1979. If convicted on all 19 counts of the indictment, he could face a maximum prison sentence of 47 years and fines totaling $82,000. The first count of the indictment against Bell charges that between June 4 and June 30, 1979, he reported that his church had served 8,288 meals when in fact only 2,500 meals were served. The second count alleges the minister filed a reimbursment report on Aug.
15, 1979, claiming 13,898 meals were served bwtween July 12 and Aug. 10 of that year and that the church incurred $3,828 in expenses. The indictment said that JACKSON (AP) A veteran Mississippi Highway Patrolmen was suspended Friday pending a dismissal hearing following an internal investigation into a Hanco*ck County traffic ticket controversy. Patrol Chief Donald Butler said officer Raburne L. Silkwood, 42, would continue to receive pay until his July 16 hearing.
Butler said another veteran officer, Thomas H. Saul, 47, of the Gulfport district of the patrol faced a similar dismissal hearing on July 12. Saul had been suspended with pay on June 16. The patrol said action was taken against both officers after internal investigations into complints they had violated laws, rules and regulations governing the actions and conduct of state patrolmen. Silkwood was transferred from the Gulfport district to the rip 3" New officers nPmDDQmC vf 1 1 Kyi IO I I Uf CPR Two workmen killed IB Mrs.
Nancy Cornish a registered nurse from the Northwest MIssIssIddI Regional Medical Center and David Turman an Emergency Room Technielandemonstrated Cardia Pulmonary Reslsltation for mpmhert Technlclandemonstrated Cardia Pulmonary Reslsltation for members of the Rotary Clubthis week. Mrs. Cornish spoke to the club on CPR and told them that courses on the technique are available to groups on request. Photo by White MORTON, Miss. (AP) Two workmen died of suffocation, apparently from methane gas, and another was injured critically on Friday as they cleaned out a storage tank at a Morton poultry processing plant.
The dead were Mark Ainsworth, Court drunk, $108; and Clinton Jones, 632 Sunflower, simple assault, $308. Fines and forfeitures in this week's session of city court totaled $2,879, and an additional $214 was collected on contempt charges for failure to pay fines previously imposed. Also, Danny Boyd, 206 Georgia, was sentenced to serve 22 days in the county jail or pay a previously imposed $216 fine. OFFERS THE Bndal 253 Weekly review Mother nature cries on area Starkville district to work as a radio operator following published reports that he had written almost 8,000 tickets in 1979, almost 11 times more than the average patrolman. Reports had said that about half the traffic cases were handled by one justice court judge in Hanco*ck County.
Butler indicated Silkwood, with the patrol for 18 years, also was investigated concerning other matters, including alleged failure to follow procedures in reporting to his Starkville post. Authorities said Saul, a 16-year veteran, was investigated for alleged misconduct during an incident which occurred durig the last the months while he was on duty. Butler said that should the allegations be confirmed at the hearings, the two officers would be dismissed from the patrol. in his early 20s, and Jasper Ealy, who was in his 30s, both of Morton, according to Scott County Coroner Joe Rigby. Rigby said Steve Cleaver, about 25, was hospitalized in Jackson.
Morton Patrolman Steven Carlisle said the three were trying to unclog an 18-foot high tank containing excess chicken parts when one or two of them passed out and fell into the tank. Rigby said Cleaver was overcome as he tried to rescue the other two. The coroner speculated that the methane gas formed from the deteriorating chicken parts. JADE GATE BEAUTY SALON U'estgate Shopping Center DIAL 627-3066 BRIDE HER 624-6110, FOR APPOINTMENT SEWING SHOULD BE FUN! If you are having problems sewing, bring in your problem material and machine. We will show you the proper needle, thread, and machine settings for the job.
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Forfeitures included: James Dearing, 124 Madison, false pretenses, $33; Marshall Thompson, 1556 Lee Drive, allowing a dog to run free, Will Phillips, 614 Poplar, public drunk, $108; Ricky Conners, 300 block of Yazoo, disorderly conduct, $108; Donnie Henson, 229 Russell, allowing a dog to run free, and Paul Pitt-man, 2106 Center, leaving the scene of an accident, $64. Those persons entering guilty pleas, the charges and the case dispositions are as follows: Sidney Foster, 312 Jefferson, failure to maintain control of an automobile, $15; Dave Allen 135 Jefferson, shoplifting, $308; L.C. McLaughlin, 425 Andrews, expired tag and suspended driver's license, $141; Johnny Hill, 709 Paul Edwards, possession of marijuana, $158; Sammie Hillard of Lyon, DWI, $563; Jimmie Miller, 236 Madison, public drunk, $108; A.D. Morris, 425 Fourth, public drunk, $108; Archie Williams, 657 Sunflower, public The county board also authorized Sheriff Jesse Bonner to begin a rabies control program in the county as soon as possible. Crime and Fires Burglary and arson were suspected in a fire which did heavy damage to the warehouse of Maynor Window Ware.
A former local resident shot and killed both his son and himself, and critically injured his wife in Arkansas. No motive could be established for the incident. Fantastic Sam's Family Hair Center sustained considerable damage from the second of two fires at its address in the same day. The Carnegie Public Library's Delta Blues Museum was burglarized and two harmonicas which were on display there, were taken. Legal Proceedings aim at the incorporation of the northern county PAPER TROUSSEAU We Have A Tasteful Selection Of PRINTED OR ENGRAVED WEDDING INVITATIONS IN BOTH TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY STYLES.
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No final action was taken, however, and the plan, if approved, would likely to into effect Oct. 1. Residents of the Roundyard section of the city heard of proposed improvements in the final year of a community development project for their area. Some $1,250,000 remains to be spent. The Coahoma County Board of Supervisors voted to initiate a test program to see if a mosquito control program through aerial application is feasible in the county.
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