Daily Corinthian Newspaper, Corinth, MS dated July 15-19, 1966

Perry, Teams With Thompson in Court Win

Another first round match in the Hillandale Country Club’s Tennis Tournament was played yesterday as Bo Perry and Bob Thompson took two straight sets from Lamar Wadlington and Arthur Boren, 7-5, 6-4.

Perry and Thompson will now face Hal Anderson and Buddy Biggers sometime next week in a semi-finale match.

Booneville Man Takes Training At Fort Knox 

Army Cadet Michael J. McAlpin, 20, who received an associate degree this year from Northeast Mississippi Junior College in Booneville, is at Fort Knox, undergoing six weeks of summer training with his school’s Reserve Officer Training Corps unit.

He is receiving instruction in military skills which will qualify him for acceptance as a commissioned officer in the Army Reserves upon graduation from school.

The summer encampment is scheduled to end July 30th.

Cadet McAlpin is scheduled to attend the University of Mississippi in Oxford this fall.

His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Ledrew L. McAlpin, Route 2, Booneville. 

Post Office Remodeling Scheduled

Alterations at the Corinth Post Office, including changing of the letter drops and enlarging of public accommodations windows are including in a recent contract let to Chalender Construction Company of Springfield, Missouri.

The General Services Administration awarded the contract for a price of $6,510.

Corinth Postmaster Leroy Gray said another section of post office boxes also will be installed by the firm.

He said work has not begun. Estimated construction time is 90 days.

Ronald Joyce Cited 

Ronald E. Joyce of Ramer, Tennessee, Mississippi State University co-operative student who works alternate semesters at ITT Telecommunications in Corinth, has been notified that he qualified for the Dean’s List in the College of Engineering during the spring-semester at Mississippi State. Joyce is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Joyce of Ramer and will be a senior at State this fall.

Fire Damages Lloyd’s Café 

A fire that started in a store room in the rear of Lloyd’s Café about 6 p.m. yesterday reportedly caused some $4,000 to $5,000 in damages to the business owned by Lloyd Gann.

The fire first noticed by a cook, who saw smoke coming from the storeroom was put under control in about 15 minutes by the Corinth Fire Department, but smoke continued to boil from the building for some two hours.

The building contains some 2,000 square feet of dining and kitchen space and is joined by the large Corona Plaza Motel. Only minor damage was reported to the motel, with only three rooms receiving smoke damage.

Fire Chief Charlie Forsyth said this morning that a definite cause could not be determined but thought that faulty wiring could have caused the fire.

In addition to the estimated $4,000 to $5,000 damage to the equipment and the building, Gann said just about all the canned goods and food stuffs stored in the room were destroyed. Gann said the restaurant would reopen for business this afternoon or tomorrow morning.

Vagrant Verse by Grady Peerey 

The Real Reason

The art of writing letters once

Was cherished as a gift,

And letters that the folks received

Would give them all a lift.

They were not full of gossip, then,

No scandal did they shout,

But might contain a recipe

For making sauerkraut.

Folks wrote about the latest books

And what made people tick:

Religions, crops, and quilting bees,

In flawless rhetoric.

But now with folks glued to TV,

(From it they can’t be pried)

For they can’t miss “Adventure Time”, “Bonanza” and “Rawhide.”

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 Vicki Burress Roach is a professional genealogist and special columnist for the Daily Corinthian. Send queries to: Alcorn County Genealogical Society, Attention: Vicki B. Roach, P.O. Box 1808, Corinth, Miss. 38835-1808.

The Alcorn County Genealogical Society’s website is www.avsia.com/acgs.