Arkansas Co., Arkansas

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Stuttgart - Funeral services were held at Turpin Funeral Home here Saturday afternoon for Brown Sanderson, well known Stuttgart resident, who was killed in an automobile accident last Wednesday mrning near Liberty, Miss. The Rev. O.C. Harvey, assisted by the Rev. C.E. Waggoner, conducted services. Burial was in the Lone Tree Cemetery.
Mr. Sanderson, a native of Louisville, Ky, came to Almyra Arkansas with his parents in 1903, and entered the well work at an early age. Since 1916 he had been with the Layne-Arkansas Company in Stuttgart.
He was married to Miss Ada Carolyn Bowen in 1936. Surviving are his wife, two brothers, Marvin Sanderson of Luxora, and Solon Sanderson of Marianna; three sisters, Mrs. Katherine Hagaman of Stuttgart; Mrs. King Schmid of Stuttgart and Mrs. Ida Blid Zerell of Monrovia, Calif.
(Source: DeWitt Era Enterprise, April 2, 1942, Vol. 60, Page 1)

Allan Swim, Was Publicist For the CIO

Allan LaVerne Swim, 69, a retired Foreign Service officer and a former national publicity director for the old Congress of Industrial Organizations, died Thursday at Hailfax Hospital in Daytona Beach, Fla., where he had a winter home. He had cancer.
Mr. Swim was born in Illinois and grew up in Stuttgart, Ark. In 1934, he joined The Daily Arkansawyer there as editor and copublisher. He moved to Memphis, Tenn. the next year to work for The Press-Scimitar as a writer and editor.
Mr. Swim moved to Washington area in 1946 and became national publicity director of the CIO, now part of the AFL-CIO.
In 1951, he began his government career as deputy director of the Mutual Security Agency in Paris. He joined the Foreign Service in 1954. He was first assigned to Pakistan for four years and then returned to Washington briefly to work as coordinator for the National Security Council and the Operations Coordinating Board. In addition to Pakistan, his foreign assignments included Africa, South America and the Far East.
From 1964 to 1969, Mr. Swim was the chief of the publications division of the old U.S. Information Agency. He retired in 1970.
He was a resident of Bethesda and a member of the National Press Club.
His first wife, Kress Jamison, died in 1970.
Survivors include his wife, the former Eula Teel Hephcoate of Bethesda; a daughter, Sylvia L. Albritton of Casselberry, Fla.; two sisters, Kathryn Seiver of Arkansas City, Ark., and Jeanne Weir of Arkansas; two brothers, Harold, of Seattle, and Robert G., of Chicago, and one grandchild.
Source: Washington Post, The (DC) - January 7, 1981