Pryor Scrapbook Clippings, 1955-1980

·• · •• Elvis Presley Dies · 42; _Heart .Disease -Is, Blam·ecf - Pnm Gueue Prell Semees MEMPHIS - Elvis Presley, aged 42, a Mississippi-born for– mer $35-a-week ·truck ·driver who became the world's most famous rock 'n' roll singer and highest paid entertainer, died Tuesday of an "erratic heart– beat." ~::~!!E~~~:s -~ manager, Joe Esposito, at 2:30 t1\ p.m. But Shelby County Medical Examiner Dr. Jerry Francisco said Presley may have been dead since 9 a.m. Dr. Francisco told newsmen after an autopsy that ''there was severe cardiovascular _disease present. He bad a history of mild hypertension and some two diseases may be responsible 1· ·\ ... :-\?"::::?\ for the cardiac arrythmia. But ,. ,i.'::,· -~' 1v,d{¾~i;~t:{l the precise cause was not deter- · ··, :- .-.-::t?t-:.,~rf%i ?ft i :ift~~:~ t~~t\;;:::ty 1 ;!< rA1 'ji =:..• ~:=~• sa~~ I ,·\c \o,t{f'l'' · · · /2'SJ£.0i;.~w- was "no evidence of any illegall\.t "'1·\q,, Presley in 1974 concert photog· raph. . drug use." Y\ v- \ · .... The Associated Press, earlier, the result of an overdose of had quoted a Memphis police drugs." spokesman as saying that detec- Efforts to revive ·Presley .tives were investigating ''the were abandoned at Baptist Hos- strong possibility that death was pital c!t 3:30 p.m. -.1 know .my heavenly Father knows . How.~ frail I am to meet _,•. my foes . -But -He my cause win ' e'er defend . Uphold and keep me to . the end. vividly emphasizes the brevity and uncer- . · t ainty of life. Once when King Saul was chasing David across the country, David said, 1bere is but a 'step between me and death.' And nme of us knows when he . ~ take that step. · ''Elvis died at 42. Some of you may not live to be that old. But it's not how long we live that's really important, but how we · live. If we reject the Bible, then personally l find that life bas no real meaning. 1be Bible teaches that- God's plans and pur– poses for man culminated in the death and · resurrectim of His son on a cross. Jesus lives today. And because.He lives, through Him we·too can have hope of life beymd the grave. "-0 'death, where is thy sting? O grave, • where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to · God, which gi'Veth us the vic– tory through our Lord Jesus Christ.' (I Co– rinthians, 15:~58.) "Thus today I hold up Jesus Christ to all fl us. And challenge each of you to commit · your heart and life to Him. May these mo– ments of quiet and thoughtful meditation . and reflection on Elvis' life serve to help ·, US. also reflect upon our own lives and to· r~ our own lives. And may these moments help us t~t our ~ : All of us sometimes let going in the-wroog ~tion." ---~ --