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a a a the the the the the the the the of of of of of of of of of of IN THE LEAF-CHRONICLE United Press Associated Press (AP) Wirephotos Popular Comics VOL. CLXIV NO. 140 Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle Tennessee's Oldest Newspaper Established In 1808 CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 13, 1952 The Senator Meets The Girls Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination, poses with dozen ladies of the press at a dinner party in Washington. They are (left to right, seated): Vera Clay, Newsweek; Marie Sauer, Washington Post; Sen.

Kefauver; May Craig, hostess, representing New England newspapers; Ruth Montgomery, New York Dally News; (standing) Doris Fleeson, Bell Syndicate; Ruth Cmeiner, United Press; Ester Van Wagoner Tufty, Michigan newspapers; Josephine Ripley, Christian Science Monitor; Rose McKee, International News Service; Hazel Markel, Mutual Network; Lorania E. M. Welch's Funeral To Be On Saturday Funeral services for Emmett M. Welch. 49, will be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at the grave in Little Hope Cemetery.

The Rev. David Pitman will have charge. Pallbearers will be G. B. Welch, Noyal Welch, James Wilson, Edward L.

Winn Billy Winn Littlefield, Wilson Brazelton and O. M. Keathley. Tarpley's will have charge. Welch in a Miami, hospital Wednesday morning.

following after a year's illness. A native of Sango, he was born June 18, 1902, son of the late James W. and Ora Barnett Welch, He moved from this county when a child. Surviving are a brother, James B. Welch, Los Angeles, and five sisters, Mrs.

Wendell Nelson, Clear Water, Mis Edward Winn, Nashville; Mrs. Raymond Wilson, Brunbidge, and Mrs. Thomas A. Williams, Brentwood He was a member of the Baptist Church. Registration For Recreation Opens Monday Registration for the Recreation Program will be held next Monday and Tuesday, June 16 and 17, Frank Ditmore playground supervisor, announced today, Playgrounds for white children are located at Riverside and Mericourt, and a playground for colored children is 1o- cated at Burt High School.

Miss Grace Sprouse is director of white playgrounds and Professor Brooks is director of the colored program. The registration periods Monday and Tuesday are especially importfor beginners in swimming classes. These classes will be held in the Clarksville High School pool with a probable shift to the Municipal Pool when it is opened the latter part of the summer Children who are 9 years old or over will be taught. to swim. Miss Martha Hayes is swimming director.

Ditmore emphasized that you do not have to register to take an active part in the playground program. Plans now are for the program to run until August 15. James E. Hanley Dies, Funeral On Saturday James Edward Hanley, 40, died home at 315. Hickory Grove at 3:30 this morning.

At the time of his death he was serving in the Merchant Marine. Hanley served in the Navy World War II. He has also in the army. durinea His father was the late Edward Hanley and his mother the late Katie Murphy Hanley. He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Nell Warden Hanley, Clarksville: 2. brothers, Danny and John Hanley both of Boston, Massachusetts, abd one sister, Mrs. Mary Zinquini of Boston. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 P.M. at the Wiseman Funeral Home, in Erin.

Reverend William E. Barclay will officiate. Burial will be in Warden Cemetery near Erin. Archie Wood-Frank Adkins Post, American Legion, will have charge of the services at the grave. TVA To Build New Sut itation To Double Load House Considers 2 Bills To Extend Controls Law By WARREN ROGERS JR.

WASHINGTON, June 13 (A) The House today had two bills to continue expiring wage price rent controls, one passed by the Senate and the other approved by its own House Banking Committee. The government's authority for all anti-inflation curbs expires at midnight June 30, two weeks from Monday. The Senate bill, passed 58 to 18 and sent to the House yesterday, would extend this power eight months to next Feb. 28. It also would add a full year--until June 30, 1953 to authority for.

credit checks and allocation of scarce materials to industry. The House legislation, a one-year extension to June 30, 1953, was reported favorably by a 15 to 3 banking committee vote But it would end all curbs on consumer and real estate credit, a point at odds with the one-year extension of credit restrictions voted by the Senate. Rep. Spence (D-Ky), chairman of, the committee, said he expects prompt action on the House billdebate probably beginning Wednesand winding up by week's end. day, final action on the measure last night, the committee added cm major provisions which had not previously been approved.

Its most important, action reportedly was a new provision, adopted 17 to 5, to drop a price regulation requiring certain reports from dealers who sell at below-ceiling prices. The Senate action was swift after efforts to tack on amendments bearing on the steel strike were abandoned. The bill as it stands contains a request to President Truman that he invoke the 80-day anti-strike injunction provisions of the Taft-Hartley law in the steel dispute. The Senate. measure generally would continue control authority about as is, but for eight months instead of the two years the President had asked, The House version is for one year.

This and any other conflict between the two bills would have to be worked out at a Senate House conference, if the House approves the banking committee version. One change voted by the Senate. should limit dispute-settling powers of the Wage Stabilization Board, whose steel proposals evoked considerable criticism in Congress, The WSB, under the change, could enter a labor controversy only if both sides asked and if the Federal Mediation Service said all its remedies had failed. Also, its powers would be limited to. and other issues.

It would not, for recommoneyless mend the controversial union shop, which requires all of a company's to join the union repreemployes, them in bargaining negotiations. -The Senate rolt call- listed 18 Republicans against controls extension; 41 Democrats and 17 Republicans for it. Voted down were GOP moves to lift all wage-price controls and such less-sweeping proposals as one to lift ceilings on food and other farm commodities. Adopted was an amendment to remove ceilings on fresh fruit and vegetable prices. The bill also would put Congress record as favoring selective lifting of price controls as conditions permit.

Four sections which President Truman objected were retained--import curbs on fats, oil and dairy products: a ban on livestock slaughter quotas: pre-Korea price markups. for retailers and wholesalers, and the Capehart provision allowing producers to reflect cost increases since Korea in their prices. The House committee took no action 'on imports or the wage board. It voted, however, to decontrol fresh fruits and vegetables and lift wage controls on farm labor and small firmg with eight or fewer workers. James Morgan On Dean's List James Morgan, student at Alabama Polytechnic Institute School of Veterinary Medicine, has been placed on the Dean's List for the fall quarter.

Morgan's scholastic rage for the spring quarter enhim to be placed on the list ten members of this class of 50 earned this honor: Morgan is the son of Percy Morgan of Cunningham. Tenn. Murray Says 4 Issues Block Settlement Of Steel Dispute Equipment Bids For 000 Low bids on equipment and supplies for the new Memorial Hospital, opened Thursday afternoon in Judge W. D. Hudson's office, totalled approximately $107,000, or within the original estimates.

The Hospital committee opened the bids but contracts will not be awarded until a thorough study of the bids are made by the hospital building committee and the doctors' advisory committee. The Federal and State Governments must approve them, also. Lacy Hibbs, architect, released approximate low bids on each of the projects as follows: Sterilizing equipment, $26,500: X-ray equipment, kitchen equipment, $45,275, and dental equipment, $2,500. It was also disclosed by Judge Hudson that application has been signed for $73,076.93. Federal and State aid.

This is part of $550,000 which the city and county underwrote and which the Federal and State Governments were expected to grant. However Federal appropriations were exhausted. The Federal Government is making $5,000 available from another appropriation ad the state will put $23,076.93. Judge Hudson said he is hopeful all or part of the balance will be granted later. Builders for equipping the hospital included: American Sterilizer Company, Erin, Westbrook Manufacturing Company, Jackson, Scruggs Equipment Nashville: Mason Supply Nashville; Dick Ray Company, Nashville; Fillauer Surgical Supplies, Chattanooga; General Electric X-Ray Corporation, Milwaukee; Massey Surgical Supply Company, Nashville; Manards School Office Supply Company, Knoxville; Nashville Rental Supply Company, Nashville; Nashville Surgical Supply Company, Nashville; Wade Dental Sup.

pany, Nashville; Theo Tafel Nashville; Nashville China Equipment Company, Nashville; X-Ray Engineers, Nashville; American Hospital Supply Company, Corporation, Chamblee, Brown Wright Hotel Supply Corporation, Atlanta, and Crawford Sales Nashville. Girl Assured Of Scholarship HUNTINGDON, June 13 (P)-A girl is assured of winning the $650 journalism scholarship to be awarde 1 by West Tennessee section of the Tennessee Press Association. The names of the five finalists were announced yesterday by William H. McConnell of the Carroll County Democrat here, and they are all girls. They are Margaret Denton of Memphis, Dorothy Babb of Whitehaven, Norma Nunn of Ripley, Dora Smith of Covington and Pegg Welsh of Friendship.

Pennsylvania's Republican Delegates Picnic With Ike By The Associated Press Pennsylvania's 70 Republican convention votes, a keystone in the party's selection of a presidential nominee, had a picnic date today with one top contender and a tentative appointment with the other. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower plays host to the Pennsylvania delegates at his 189-acre farm near Gettysburg, Pa. The general's chief rival for the GOP prize, Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, will confer with them later, time and place as yet unannounced Eisenhower's, shirt-sleeve outing is his first face-to-face meeting with most of the Pennsylvania delerates.

It follows a pattern he set in New York parleys this week: Offering himself for questions on campaign issues in hopes replies would cement pro Eisenhower alignments and win over the others. Taft was turning his full ber GOP delegation at farm tion today' to Delaware's 12 12-memnear Wilmington. His plans call for a preconvention swing through the Middle Atlantic states, with visits to delegations Ir Virginia and Maryland as well as Pennsylvania. With the convention about three weeks off- -July 7 at Chicago -nelther Taft nor Eisenhower has the required 604-vote majority sewed up. The Associated Press tabulation, pegged to avowed and conceded preferences, shows: Taft 464, Eisenhower 392.

Register Monday Or. Tuesday At Playgrounds For Recreation High yesterday High today Low 0 River. rising 20.3 TENNESSEE Partly cloudy quite warm and humid with scattered thundershowers mostly in east portion this afternoon tonight and Saturday, Lowest tonight 70-75, PRICE FIVE CENTS The TVA is planning to build new 20,000 TVA substation in Clarksville serve the growing needs of this community. It will be located on Paradise Hill near the Clarksville Golf: and Country Club. E.

H. Harrison, chairman of the power board, said today that the new substation will double the elec. tric supply for Clarksville, Last year the city peaked on 22,000 kw and this year the peak is expected at 25,00. The new substation will serve the new water plant, the new hospital, and some 300 or more new homes as well as the homes now built. It will tie in with the present lines and provide a double feed for the city.

The City. Department of Electricity has been studying and planning power expansion for at least a year, Jesse F. Perry, manager, said. Present lines are being made ready to tie in with the new substation: The project will be completed by Christmas. Both Mr.

Harrison and Mr. Perry said the promise of the new substation is "the biggest thing that has happened to Clarksville's power system since the advent of the TVA." The substation will cost. at least $500.000. Defense Electric Power Administration (DEPA) has approved the substation as an essential project The transformers are already on the site and TVA expects to begin construction soon. J.

W. Eskin, TVA's district manager in Middle Tennessee, stated that the new substation is needed because of the great increases in the use of electricity that have already taken place in the Clarksville area and because of certain future loads that are expected. Last year the Clarksville Electric System purchased more than 82 million kilowatt-hours from TVA; 'in 1945, the last year of the war, they I purchased less than 32 million kwh and as recently as 1947 their requirements totaled only 45 million kwh. The increase was evenly divided among residential consumers and commercial and industrial consumers. In 1945, the homes in Clarksville used 7 million kilowatt-hours and the commercial and industrial customers used 23 million kilowatt-hours.

This past year, homes used 31 million kwh and business used 46 million kwh. In this sixyear period, residential use increased and a half times and business use doubled. The tremendous increase in residential use was caused by the combination of new customers and higher average. use per customer. About 1,600 homes were added to Clarksville's list of customers in the last six years.

On top of this the average Clarksville home used 6,800 kilowatt-hours in 1951 as com. pared with only 2,300 kwh in 1945. It is expected that home use will continue to grow very rapidly, partly because of the large number of new all electric homes that are being built in the area. Sango Club Votes To Complete Picnic Grounds The Community Club at a meeting held last night. at the school voted to appropriate enough money to complete the picnic grounds on the Jesse R.

Durham farm. The Picnic ground committee reported that the bull dozing work has been completed, the road leading to the site has been widened, and the grounds leveled Zelma Porter reported on costs and materials for lighting the grounds A Committee was appointed which will meet with James English, Assistant County Agent, and Miss Pauline Young, Assistant Home Demonstration Agent, to select one boy and one girl 4-H Club member form the community to attend the 4-H Club camp, The club will sponsor selected. Named on committee were the youths Mrs. Margie Cocke. Miss Martha Miller, and Edgar Parker.

After hearing a report Mrs. Jesse Durham on use by. the prize money the club won last year, the organization voted to have a special called meeting next Thurs. day to decide the money is to be used. Plans were.

completed for. the clubs annual bar-b-q supper to be given Thursday evening July 10th at the school Serving will start at 5:00 P. M. and continue to 7:30 P. Tickets may be obtained from club members or may be obtained at the door.

The Sango P. T. A. charge of the program for the evening. Several numbers local talent show given earlier this year were used.

Bobby Stanley, Mrs. Grant Bradberry: Murray Harmon, Winfred Powell, and Lewis Bradberry took part in the program. Shrine Circus To Show Here On Saturday The stage is set for the big Tom Pack-Shrine Circus to be presented tomorrow afternoon and night at Municipal stadium. The matinee will begin at 3 and the evening performance at 8. Those who seen the circus which has showing in Nashhave, ville, describe it the best one Pack has yet presented.

It is filled with exciting acts, described as almost unbelievable. The circus is being brought to Ciarksville under auspices of the Clarksville Shrine Club. An opening feature of the evening show will be the crowning of the Shrine circus girl who has sold the to the show. She will be given a free trip to New Orleans, along with a chaperone. Mrs.

Clark Dies, Funeral To Be On Saturday Funeral services for Mrs. Lula Lewis Clark, 80, will be held Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the First Church of the Nazarene The Rev. W. M. Greathouse will officiate and burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.

McReynolds will have charge. Mrs Clark died Thursday night while visiting her daughter. Hammock, Barton, Ala. "She sutfered a heart attack and death was unexpected though she had been in impaired health for several months. Mrs Clark made her home with a son, Earl Clark, 719 Monroe Street The body will be at the home of the son until hour of funeral.

Born in Houston County on April 29, 1872, Mrs. Clark spent the past 30 years of her life in Montgom ery County. Her husband, Clarence Clark, died June 30, 1946 Surviving are four sons Walter Clark Adams: Charlie and Ver. non Clark, Granite City. and Farl Clark of this city; two daugh.

ters, Mrs. Hammock of Barton, and Mrs L. D. Wickham, Clarksville; 23 grandchildren and 19 greatgrandchildren. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

Plans Started For Countv Fair On Sept. 4-6 A meeting of the executive committee for the annual -Montgomery County Fair to be held at the fair grounds on Sept. 4, 5 and 6, WAS held this morning in the Gover. nor's room at the Hotel Montgomery The executive committee discussed plans to paint the fences and make general repairs, on. the grounds A committee was also appointed to look into the possibilities of building an additional building for displaying cattle Members of the committee appointed are: M.

Northington E. H. Harrison, Richard Hawking and Paul Horton. Ralph Winters made a report on the meeting of the Tennessee Fairs Association which he attended in Memphis recently. Winters brought out some points which had been used to advantage at other county fairs in the state, Rev.

Burchett To Preach Sunday At Spring Creek special service of music and gospel message will be brought at 11 o'clock Sunday morning at Spring Creek Baptist Church by Rev. and Mrs. Harold E. Burchett. The visiting minister, a native of this city, is pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, Nashua, N.

Both Rev. and Mrs. Burchett have been heard regularly over daily gospel broadcasts in Nashua and Boston, Mass. Rev. Burchett, a baritone vocalist, was for some years engaged in evangelistic work in New England and the maritime provinces of Canada before entering the pastorate.

Mrs. Burchett is a contralto vocalist and pianist. Rev Henry A. Hamby, pastor of the Spring Creek Church, has announced that the entire service will be in charge of the guests. The final program by the children of the Daily Vacation Bible School will be held at the regular Sunday School hour just before the morning service.

Tommy Tumm Heads DAV Tommy Tumm has been reelected commander of the Hardy Shelby Chapter 45, Disabled American Veterans.James Deering, Jr. is senior vice commander; Jesse Carpenter, junior vice commander; Floyd M. Ford, chaplain; James E. Tue, adjutant-treasurer; Fred. Phelps, sergeant-at-arms and Omie Jacoson, secretary.

Kefauver Makes Home State Visit, Speeches Planned CHATTANOOGA, June 13 IM Sen. Estes Kefauver came back today for a two-day homecoming during which Tennessee friends are raising campaign funds with $25 a plate spreads at Chattanooga, Knoxville, Nashville and Memphis. Appearing with the front-running candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination at the rallies will be his wife, Nancy, and Gael Sullivan, his national campaign manager. The first of the spreads is a barbecue here at noon. Kefauver is scheduled to speak afterwards at a meeting of the Tennessee State Industrial Union Council (CIO) Sullivan will speak at the barbecue.

The Kefauver party move on to a dinner at Knoxville tonight at which Gov. Gordon Browning will introduce the senator and Sullivan. Kefauver's 82-yearold father, R. C. Kefauver of Madisonville, will have a place at the speaker's table.

A luncheon at Nashville tomorrow and a dinner at Memphis tomorrow night will complete the homestate tour Kefauver' first since he announced for the presidential nomination. At Nashville Mayor Ben West and County Judge Beverly Briley Proclaimed tomorrow Kefauver Day. Yesterday the senator wound up a whirlwind tour of the sister state of North Carolina and said he is confident of getting a large of the Tar Heel State's national convention delegates. He told a Charlotte luncheon that was the reason he came to North Carolina. The tall, smiling senator, accompanied by Mrs.

Kefauver, also visited Asheville, Charlotte and Raleigh. The handshaking jaunt ended with a big rally at Greensboro last night. Kefauver's trip had been billed as a goodwill tour to meet the voters. But at Charlotte he told his audience that his chief Southern opponent for the Democratic nomination, Sen Richard Russell of Georgia, can't win. The Tar Heel delegates, then, should get behind a winner, he said.

"Senato: Russell is a fine man. But he's finding it difficult to get degates outside a few Southern states. And no candidute with purely sectional support ever got the Democratic nomination." He apparently was pointing to the recent Convention North which Carolina endorsed Democratic but failed to pledge the state's 32 conventior. votes to him. haver't got any new Tar Heel pledgeds today," he said, but added with a grin, "they'll come around.

at Kefauver told about 100 party leaders, city, officials and newspaper and newsmer at the Charlotte luncheon: "I'm a Southerner, and I believe Democratic. Party. It's p.rty of progress. I'll get the presidential nomination at Chicago anu we'll win in November. On nationa' affairs, he said he wants to bring about a positive approach to the nation's problems.

people in my campaigning also positive ap(Please Turn to Page 5) Legion Nominates Slate of Officers, To Elect Later Post 7 of the American Legion nominated the slate of officers for the coming year at a meeting held last night at the Legion Club house on Main Street. Election of the will be held at a later. date. Billy Drye will unopposed for the office of Commander of the local post. Other nominees for the various offices are as follows: First Vice Commander: John Binkely and Wilson Goodrich; Second Vice Commander: Walter Neblett, Bill and Charles Armstrong: Secretary; Ralph Mitchell and Gene Moss; Adjutant: Roy ton unopposed; Assistant Ad jutant; W.

Morrison, unopposed; Finance Officer: J. Frank Riley, unopposed; Chaplain; The Rever- Sat. end William J. Hadden, unopposed: at Arms. Bill Baggett, John Smith.

Tommy Tumbs, and Dewey Vaughan. By WILLIAM G. SMOCK PITTSBURGH, June 13 (A) Philip Murray, number one. man in the steel strike, called policy making aides to a strategy session today amid speculation their stand on the unior. is in for review and possible revision.

as the biggest obstacle holding up The union shop is issue is regarded settlement in the 12-day old strike of 650,000 members. of the CIO United Steelworkers. That issue and the Taft-Hartley Act are slated to receive lots of atention at the joint session of the USW's Executive Board and Wage Policy Committee, Murray invited newsmen to hear his address but said they would have to leave during the USW executive session. The strike has cut production of steel, badly needed for defense, almost 90 per cent. It has plunged slightly more than 100,000 miners, railroaders and other workers into idleness.

Union and industry are so close on wage matters- that most observers think an agreement would be worked out quickly if money were the only issue But up (o now, Murray hasn't given an inch on his demand for a unior shop. And the companies are just AS steadfast in refusing to consider a union shop. A union shop is one in which all workers must be union members. Old employes who don't belong have to join to keep their jobs. New employes must join in stated time, usually a month.

Since World War II days, most steel mills have operated under a maintenance of membership arrangment. That calls for old employes to retain their union or nonunion status but leaves new employes free to join or not as they chose. The union shop coutroversy may have figured in the refusal of USW members to accept a proferred contract in Coatesville, Pa In that steel town, Lukens Steel Co. offered to grant wage increases of from to 26 cents, with fringe benefits. But the offered contract called for maintenance of membership.

The union said, no, it wouldn't sign. talks between Wheeling Steel Corp. and the steelworkers collapsed last night at Wheeling, W. Va. The company offered a 24- cent an hour pay hike for the men who now average about $1.95 im the entire industry.

Picket lines at the Pittsburgh plant of the Crucible Steel Company of American plant opened to let out a sizable shipment of titandum sheets which the army had ordered. Titanium, a relatively new lightweight, 'strong metal, is being used in the manufacture of jet engines. Meanwhile, Mobilization Director John R. Steelman tackled the problem of removing from the picketed steel yards and warehouses metal which already is finished or partly finished and delivering it to munitions plants. leaders attendin a Washington conference agreed to present Steelman's proposal to the meeting today.

Fast breaking developments in the steel crisis turned the strike spotlight on Pittsburgh after the House Banking Committee in Washington voted 15 to 10. against a proposal that President Truman be empowered to seize the steel industry. The Senate had previously voted against somewhat similar plans. to give Truman seizure power but it was the President's first rebuff in the House. The Senate has served notice on Triman- that he whould use the emergency provisions of the TaftHartley Act to get a court injunction against a strike.

That is why each vote commands attention. A bloc of 140-the total in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Maryland -could knock a seesaw nomination battle sky-high. In fact, there was considerable talk of a coalition of those three states. Maryland's Gov. Theodore McKeldin, pledged his state's 24 votes on the first ballot as a favorite son candidate, said last night such negotiations are under way.

After the first ballot, McKeldin is believed able to swing 18 to 20 of the Maryland votes. Pennsylvania Gov. John Fine, credited with control of 32 of Pennsylvania's 70 votes, said he get together. Arthur Summerfield, had not proposed any state Michigan GOP national committeeman, declined to say what he thin 8 Michigan's uncommitted votes-33 out of a total 46 might do: An, Associated Press survey shows Pennsylvania's delegation divided 20 for Eisenhower, 18 for. Taft and 32 following In Michigan, It's seven for Eisenhower, six for Taft and 33 cued to Summerfield's action.

Eisenhower gets a chance to make a pitcl for Michigan support tomorrow He will confer with Michigan delegates and party leaders and deliver a major speech in Detroit. Democrats, meanwhile, add (Continued from Page 2) L. M. Blackwell Dies, Funeral To Be Saturdav M. Blackwell, 72, died Thursday night at 10 o'clock at his home in Marion community after a prolonged illness.

Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon o'clock at the home, C. Brannam, minister of the' Church of Cartel wit of. ficiate. Burial will be in Marion Cemetery, Pallbearers will be Ben Castleberry, William Dickson, John Cole. man, Lawrence Blackwell.

Marshall Baggett, Freeman Hodge, Wiseman will have charge. Mr. Blackwell was born in Raven Den Springs, on Feb. 28, 1880, son of the late Robert and Sarah Blackwell, His wife, Mrs. Bil.

ly Anne Blackwell, to whom he was married July 31, 1900, died Sept. 19, 1949. Surviving are a son, Golden Blackwell, Clarksville; two daughters, Mrs. Lela Miller, Cumberland Furnace, and Mrs. Bernice Green, Marion Community; a sister, Mrs.

John Coleman, Marion, and five brothers, Troy and Jim Blackwell, Clarksville: Ed of Shiloh, John of Southside, and also Horace leaves ten Blackwell, grandchildren and five great-grandchildren..

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