The Enterprise-Tocsin from Indianola, Mississippi • 1

0. Box Graduating seniors of '82 will get their diplomas This is big week for 284 high school Ware, son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Ware of Joseph Michael Carley, Raynold Scott fc seniors in the Indianola area as graduation day approaches.

Tonight at 7 p.m., 77 seniors will graduate from Indianola Academy in ceremonies at the gymnatorium. Of these, 22 are academy honors or honor students. Meanwhile, final plans for Sunday's graduation ceremonies at Gentry High School will have been made. Gentry will graduate 207 students at 6 p.m. at Perry S.

Price Memorial Stadium. Of this number, 18 are honor students. Valedictorian at IA will be Byron Griffith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Griffith of Moorhead.

Saultatorian will be Cindy Martin, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Tom Martin of Indianola. The ceremony will start with the invocation by Kathryn Anne Arant, president of the IA student council. She will be followed by Jimmy Downs, president of the Class of 1982, who will give the welcome.

Then will come Cindy Martin's keynote address, which will be followed by a key address delivered by Heather Watson. Griffith will deliver the farewell. IA High School Principal Sammy Henderson will present the seniors, while Headmaster Peter Jernberg will award the diplomas. Valedictorian at Gentry will be Roger Huey, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Huey of Moorhead. Salutatorian will be Adrian Chiz, Eric Van Crawford, Steve Daniels, Jill Rene Dona hoe, Kate Stainback Duncan, Will Gray Edwards, Charlie Thomas Ellis, Katherine Cliett Fletcher, Amelia Thclma Fratesi, Sherry Lynn Ginter; John Coyctte Hendon Connie Hodges, Patricia Gail Inman, John E. Jordan Tracey Dianne Kelly, John Paul Kern, Lee Andrew Kirk, Charles Garvin Knight Roderick Randall Kwan, Angela Mary Labella, Bronwyn Sue Lane, James William Lanham Patricia Gay Lee; David Lynn McCaskill, Larry Stacy McKay James Robert Maddox, Howard Allen Melton, Tara Anne Morgan, Gail Gillespie Parker, Lisa Annette Pate, Jeffrey Alan Pierce, Ronald Quan, Lea Ann Richard, Katherine Carlile Robinson, Dar-rell Wayne Simpson, Dianne Elizabeth Smith; Sherman Christian Stauffer Joseph Carter Steinwinder, James Walter Steward III, Gregory Dean Sykes, Robert Bryan Tierce, Helen Virginia Van Cleve, Keith Mc-Carty Vickers, Dorman Keith Wells, Kimberly Willidean Wasson and James Neill Wright. Students who will graduate at Gentry include: HONOR STUDENTS Bertha Brown, Stacy Brown, Alfred Carter, Mary Davis, Nannette Dean, Vanessa Dean, Cherae Farmer, Indianola. GHS' program calls for these two to present the principal addresses.

Principal Andrew Brown then will present scholarships from various community and club organizations. Dr. D.B. Floyd, superintendent of the Indianola Municipal Separate School District and Odell Godwin, chairman of the city school board, will present the diplomas. Seniors from Indianola Academy graduating with Academy Honors are: Kathryn Anne Arant, Gina Lynn Bardwell, Jimmy Earl Downs, Karen Mechelle Gentry, David Byron Griffith, Cindy Carol Martin, Mary Howard Poindexter, Evelyn Nanette Skeen, Charlotte Michelle Timbs and Jo Valencia Wong.

Graduating with Honors are: Susan Dianne Ashmore, Memrie Lou Avritt, Sandra Carline Bell, Harris Clayton Brumfield, Mary Lynn Cammack, Gina Renee Jenkins, Peter Jue, Karla Gay Nobile, Christine Elizabeth Roy, Tammy Diane Sheffield, Charles Byron Smithhart and Heather Anne Watson. Others graduating are: Howard Albert Atkinson IV, Mark Douglas Aycock, Robert Michael Bellipanni, Brenda Hagaman Barron, Cynthia Ann Beard, Heather Renee Boswell, Lisa Gay Boyles, Lawrence Franklin Bright THEY'RE TOPS Pictured above are (I. to Bryon Griffith, Indianola Academy's Valedictorian; Cindy Martin, Salutatorian; Roger Huey, Gentry's Valedictorian; and Adrian Ware, Salutatorian. Frederick Hannah, Cassandra Hayes, Roger Huey, Karen Jones, Paul Porter, Valarie Richardson, Ludie Rosser, Shelia Rushing, Shirley Spivey, Adrian Ware and Ann Watson; Other Gentry graduates include: Carta Allen, Linda Alexander, Priscilla Anderson, Dorothy Armstead, Albert Armstrong, Darlis Armstrong, Donnell Armstrong; Patricia Armstrong, Lillie Bailey, Frankie Baker, McArthur Beard, James Beckworth, Joe L. Berdin, Shirley Blancher, Ivory Bourage, Eddie Bcntley, Carolyn Brent, Sandra Brim, Joanne Broadnax, Carolyn Brooks, R.

Brown, Christopher Buck, Sharon Buckner, Patricia Bush, Linda Cain, Chester Caldwell, Nelson Caldwell, David Danty Faye Cattlidge, Hob-son Cherry, Lewis Cole; Diana Coleman, Dell Coleman, Henry Coleman, Eugene Collier, Brenda Collins, Michael Collins, Sondi Clark, Gloria Curry, Ricky Davenport, Liddell Davis, Edna T. Continued to Page 5 The Enterprise-Tocsin 25 Volume XCVIIA No. 20 Thursday, May 20, 1982 Indianola, Mississippi In Lovelace shopping center Twin cinema will open here 'T'W 1 -ii rm IE i it rr almost unbelievable that a town the size of Indianola doesn't have a cinema," Neutzling said. "We have done a population and financial survey of the area and we think we can do a good business, especially if we can draw from the small towns around Indianola." he added. NEUTZLI.VG COMPLIMENTED Kent Lovelace, owner of the shopping center, saying that he had put a lot of effort into getting the cinema in.

The theater will have a full concession stand and a smoking lounge and may feature several video games for patrons to play while waiting for a movie to start. "But, we will not have a game room," Neutzling said. "We are strictly a family operation and a game room would bring in an element we don't want." The price of tickets for the NOLA Twin Cinema will be $3.50 adults and $1.50 for children three to 12. Neutzling said that there will be a bargain night on Thursdays. Tickets for bargain night will probably be 99 cents.

seat about 22S people. He added that the seats would be comfortable but would not be the rocking chair type. "We have run surveys and found that people don't like rocking chair seats," he said. "They are comfortable until some kid starts bouncing then the whole row gets to rocking." He also said that the projectors and sound system would be state-of-the-art. The projection booth will have a platter system which will avoid having to change reels of film.

"WE WILL PROBABLY HAVE a surround-sound speaker system that gives the listener a stereo effect," he said. "The NOLA twin Cinema will also be offering the same movies as Greenwood and Greenville at the same time and sometimes before they do," Neutzling said. "We also intend to concentrate on family pictures," he said, adding that the theater would show only PG and rated movies. "Theaters Unlimited is really looking forward to opening in Indianola. It is By JOE WILSON Soon Indianolans, for the first time in years, will not have to travel to Greenville, Cleveland or Greenwood to go to a movie.

The NOLA Twin Cinema will open June 4 in the Lovelace Shopping Center. The two screen theater will be located in the old Big Star Food Store building and will be owned and operated by Theaters Unlimited, a Laurel based firm which has a chain of 14 theaters in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Elmer Neutzling, general manager of the chain, said that the premier shows for the twin cinema are scheduled to be Star Trek II and Grease II. "The NOLA Twin Cinema is going to be a first class theater," Neutzling said. THE SCREENS WILL BE about 21X12 feet which he said was bigger than most of the cinema screens theaters are putting in these days, according to Neutzling.

"They will be silver screens so that we will be able to show 3-D movies such as the upcoming Halloween III," he added. Neutzling said that each theater will 4 Hi. It Lk lb--' SI- a Only mayoral challenge remains Judge throws out election suit Will he movie fheater CINEMA CONSTRUCTION STARTS HERE- Lovelace Shopping Center into a twin cinema. Workmen have been busy during the past The NOLA theater is scheduled to open on June weeks changing the old Big Star store in the 4. Moorhead prison renovation proposed By DAVID RUSHING Circuit Court Judge B.B.

Wilkes on Friday threw out one of two election challenge lawsuits filed by the unsuccessful black independent candidates in the city's Dec. 8 general elections. Wilkes has set June 3 and 4 as the tentative date to hear the election challenge filed by unsuccessful mayoral candidate Alsee McDaniel. He set the date this week after ruling that a legal technicality prevents him from hearing a similar lawsuit filed by the unsuccessful independents. Willie Griffin, attorney for Alsee McDaniel, and Tommy McWilliams, who will represent Mayor Phillip Fratesi, have agreed on a trial without a jury.

Wilkes' throwing out of the suit against the aldermen hinges on a narrow interpretation of state law that prohibits suits contesting elections to be filed within 20 days after the election. ALTHOUGH THE ORIGINAL original lawsuit was filed on Dec. 28, the last day on which it could be brought to court, amendments to the suit were not filed until after this date. The alderman suit was filed by unsuccessful Independents Clanton Beamon, Myron K. Harris, Robert Kent, Mary Shepard and Johnny Mack Robinson.

Named as defendants were Democrats Charles Bellipanni, Marie Dailey, Clarke Johnson, Bill Coleman and James Robinson. The original suit simply stated that substantial fraud and irregularities existed in the election contest. However, it failed to list facts to support these allegations. Wilkes agreed with arguments by Tommy McWilliams that the independents could not sue the aldermen merely on allegations which were not supoorted by evidence. "In my opinion, the original (lawsuit) does not state a cause for (legal) action" because absolutely no facts are alleged to support the general conclusion of fraud and irregularities," Wrote Wilkes in his decision.

The lawsuit's amendments filed after Dec. 28 brought new issues in the court that were not contained in the original suit, according to Wilkes. Since these new issues were filed after the 20 day deadline, they could not be considered by the court. McDAMEL SUIT, HOWEVER, apparently was filed properly as far as original legal arguments are concerned, since Wilkes did not throw it out. He did dismiss one of the allegations McDaniel made in which he charges that the same people ran the Dec.

8 general election as ran the Nov. 10 Democratic primary. Apparently, Judge Wilkes considered Continued to Page 8 Parchman wants county farm thoi-o Qocsnmc tnlrt the hoard hnva nnntartpH trip rniintv tinnl there." Sessums told the board. have contacted the county Rv nAVID RUSHING Justice Department explains move unofficially about the proposition. He said, however, that no firm plans have yet been made about the suggestion.

"We're sort of in the negotiating stages right now," Jones said. The 480 acre prison farm has not been used as a jail since 1971 when the county discontinued its operation. Since then the farm land has been rented, while its buildings remained idle. The in 1973 the farm was used for the filming of an ABC television movie Nightmare in Badham County, which featured Chuck Connors. It came into the spotlight again in February, 1980 when the board of supervisors voted to put the land on the auction block.

The move brought much protest from Moorhead residents who said the county should keep the land. The matter was dropped in April after the board received a single, anonymous bid signed in the name of "The People of Sunflower County." The bid offered $1 above the highest bid the county might receive. He said that a major advantage of having prisoners in Moorhead would be the availability of labor for county projects. The county presently uses Parchman prisoner labor through a state law that provides them to Sunflower County. Because of the prison's location in extreme north Sunflower County, Parchman inmates have been used little outside of Supervisor District Five until lately.

During the past month, however, prisoner labor has been used to repaint the Sunflower County Courthouse. Parchman inmates presently are doing roof repair work at the county food stamp office at the intersection of Baker and Moody Streets. Sessums suggested that prisoner labor could be used effectively in such areas as cleaning roadsides and county ditches. KEN JONES, PUBLIC Relations Officer for the Department of Corrections, Tuesday confirmed that prison officials The State Department of Corrections informally has approached the Sunflower County Board of Supervisors about using the Sunflower County Penal Farm for housing state prisoners. Sunflower County Sheriff Jack Sessums told the supervisors Monday that Parchman officials had asked him to approach the board about the possibility housing about 40 state inmates in the unused facility just south of Moorhead.

Sessums said that the prison officials told him that the state would pay for any renovation as well as manning the facility. He said plans presently call for housing only prisoners from Sunflower County who have been sentenced to Parchman to serve time in the jail. The supervisors agreed to discuss the proposition with Parchman officials. The subject was placed on the board's June 7 agenda. All supervisors meetings are open to the public.

"I UNDERSTAND that it will not be high risk people who they will put By DAVID RUSHING The Department of Justice has said that the U.S. Supreme Court should uphold last May's federal court decision that caused more than 1,000 whites here to lose their right to vote in city elections. The Justice Department made the statement in a brief filed last week with the Supreme Court, which is considering an appeal by the city of the decision. The high court earlier this year asked the Justice Department give its position on the issue in a special friend of the court brief. The whole issue revolves around a Sept.

2 ruling by a three judge federal panel which upheld an earlier decision by the Justice Department that caused whites living in areas annexed on May 25, 1965 could not vote in city elections. This decision was made because the city failed to get these neighborhoods, nearly 'a of the city's area, approved by the Justice Department as required by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Continued to Page 8.