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10 Dorado (Ark.) II Dorado Times-Tuesday, April 1,1969 Obituary I K. DOWF.t James F'lijah Donnelly, 67. Warner Brown Hospital, died Sunday following a lengthy illness Horn July 2, 1901, in Little Rock, he was the son of John and Mary Kowan Donnelly. A retired boilermaker, he had been a resident of El Dorado lor the past IH years He was a membei of the Catholic Church Survivors include three brothers. John Donnelly of Hot Springs, Phillip A Donnelly ot Ventura.

Calif and Donnelly ot Oklahoma City, Okla two sisters. Sister Mary Mildred Donnelly ot El Dorado and Miss Mildred Donnelly of Ventura Funeral services were held at 10 a Tuesday at the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church with the Kev Joseph Doyle officiating Burial was in Arlington Cemetery by Young's Pallbearers were Nelson. John Crowley. Albert Abdulla. Rudy Semasek, Francis Pfeifer.

Frank Borden. Henry dela Bretonne Jr and McClatchey MRS LOl VESTAL Mrs Lou Vestal. 76. of Marion. I a died Monday afternoon in a Farmerville clinic She is survived by her husband.

James Vestal three sons. Vestal. Marion. David Vestal. Camden, and Vestal Jr Huttig two daughters Mrs Louise McVicker and Miss Geneva Vestal, both of Marion a brother Gathright.

Huttig; two sisters. Mrs I Vestal. Strong, and Mrs C. Taunton Holly Ridge, and six grandchildren Funeral services will be announced by the First National Funeral Home of Farmerville Elections Held As Scheduled About Town The Kiwanis Club will hold its weekly luncheon meeting Wednesday at In lieu of a speaker, the club has scheduled a business session for this period MRS. LILLI EDW ARDS Mrs Lillian Edwards.

78. of 1003 Sixth died Monday morning in a local hospital following a long illness Born June 9. lHyo. in Fort Wayne, Ind she was the daughter of Frank and Susie Phillips Tyrrell. A former resident of Birmingham.

Ala she had made her home here for the past five years She was a member of the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church She leaves one sister, Mrs Grace Sample of El Dorado Rosary serv ices will be recited at 8 Tuesday in the Rumph Mortuary Chapel Requiem Mass will be read at 1U a Wednesday in the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church with the Rev Richard St rock officiating Interment will be in Woodiawn Cemetery Active pallbearers will be Don Salyers Emmett Coley. Boyd Alderson, Bachtel. Andy Ritger. and Charles Engleberger THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Congressional districts in California and Wisconsin choose new representatives today in a lest of the drawing power of some of the best known names in American politics And in the prairie town of A lene. Kan the municipal election went on as scheduled despite the pall cast by the death of its favorite son.

Gen Dwight Eisenhower, and prepara tions for his burial there Wednesday National leaders of both parties worked for their candidates in Wisconsin's 7th District, which Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird held for 16 years until he joined the Nixon administration One television spot showed President Nixon, his arm around Republican Walter Chilsen on the White House lawn, saying. "I need you here in Washington Former Vice President Hu bert Humphrey went to Wau sau, Wis to speak and raise money for Democrat David Obey, a 30-year-old state assemblyman. and Sen Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts contributed television and radio tapes In the San Fernando Valley outside Los Angeles, the well- known name of Goldwater is once again on the ballot Barry Goldwater son of the Arizona senator and Republican presidential candidate, is one of 15 candidates running for the congressional seat left vacant when Republican Ed Reinecke resigned to become lieutenant governor Goldwater a Republican, makes frequent references to his carry the district in the senator hasn't campaigned for his 30- year-old bachelor son The best-known candidates are Goldwater. City Councilman James Potter Jr and Assemblyman Pat McGee, all Republicans If no we gets a majority a runoff will be held April 29 be tween the top Democrat and top Republican. Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yor ty, 39.

is in what promises to be a tight battle for re-election to a third term A weekend poll showed him trailing City Coun cilman Thomas Bradley, a 51- year-old Negro veteran of 21 years on the police force, by 16 per cent The top two men will face each other May 27 if none of the 14 candidates gets a ma jority in the nonpartisan race In Abilene, the election was shoved into the background by preparations for Eisenhower's burial almost forgot about said Jewell Islev one of five candidates for the three seats on the City Commission Mrs A Marrable. 83. of 2517 Junction City Road, broke her hip in a fall at her home Monday She will undergo surgery Tuesday, She is in Room 318 in Union Memorial Hospital The County Clerk office issued marriage licenses Friday to Jim Rhodes and Miss Linda Allen, and Gordon Michael Bash ford and Miss Sharon Gail Ward The Bolding Methodist Church will have a shower for Mr and Mrs. O. D.

Womack Thursday at 7 p.m. at the church. The Womack's home was recently destroyed by fire The couple has two children, a daughter. 12; and a son, 7 A marriage license was issued Tuesday by the County Clerk's office to Jimmy Cates and Miss Lisa Elmore SIMMS Miss Anna Simms. 81.

a resident oi Junction City, died Tuesday inorningin a Junction City nursing home Arrangements will be announced by Bailey Funeral Home Court Affirms Ruling Congress Awaits Nixon Sen LITTLE ROCK The Arkansas Supreme Court today affirmed a $60 000 land condemnation judgment against the state Highway Commission granted by a Circuit Court jury in Conway County The land about 28 acres was taken from an 83-acre tract owned by Anna Wahlgreen and others The land is located about a half mile north of the Morrilton city limits In another case, the high court ordered a third trial for Bill Stout who has twice been convicted of manslaughter in the March 27. 1967 shooting death ol Winfred Jones The court ordered Circuit Court in Crawford County to conduct its third trial of the case Stout was given a two-year prison sentence following the first trial but the Supreme ourt ordered a second trial because the lower court had not re quired the prosecutor to pro duce a written statement of Stout and another witness though the pnaecutor made fre quent references to a statement Stout received a five year sen tence following second trial In another case, the Supreme Court affirmed a ruling from Chancery Court in Hot Spring County recognizing an unrecord ed easement lease under which the Malvern Broadcasting Co placed its tower on land ad jacent to land it owned C. French filed suit in Chancery Court saying that he had not been given notice (4 the company lease at the time he purchased 25 acres from er Lumber Supply The deed contained a Hate WASHINGTON AP ate leaders of both parties say Congress has been marking time awaiting President Nixon budget rev isions The view from the House. where a handful of bills has passed, is that 'the session has started off pretty well Were still waiting for the President's oudget message said Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield really can get going until we know the direction in which the new administration is pointing We haven't done much thus far be cause we had anything to do Senate Minority l.eader Ever ett Dirksen of Illinois agreed in a separate interview with Mansfield assessment has been a tremendous ii). trying to revise the spending estimates submitted by Former President Johnson.

sen said The budget director has to get all of these estimates in from departments and agen cies check them and recheck them of our time at the last leadership meeting at the White oum was devoted to the bud gel and where to cut it I think that the final estimates ought to be ready immediately after Easter, however Administration officials have pledged publicly they will cut spending below the $195 3 billion estimated by Johnson for the fiscal year beginning July 1 But they have complained that Johnson under estimated spend mg and over estimated reve nuet Code Bill May Fall LITTLE ROt uc.v Winthrop Rockefeller execu tive aide said Monday that Senate amendments to an elec tion code bill may keep the governor from signing it We haven't actually studied the amendments yet. but we understand there are couple erf ringers in said Marion Burton, the aide Burton said the bill as originally drawn by Atty Gen Joe Prucell would have been acceptable to the governor However, Purcell said Monday the measure as amended by the Senate would "represent a giant step forward in correcting many of the problems and complaints that we have under present laws Purcell said the bill is a like a football game you don make all the points in the first quarter Burton said he had been told some of the 15 amendments passed by the Senate do away with large portions of found in the bill as originally drawn One of the amendments, by Sen Guy Jones of Conway, would provide for the re tention of existing laws on absentee ballots Another amendment would require independent in city elections to file for the campaign by the same deadline as party candidates instead of only 30 days before the election Another amendment would set election officials pay at $7 50 a day although the bill, as originally drawn, would have provided $15 a day Other Senate amendments Eliminated a provision whereby counties would pay 50 per cent of the cost of pri maries, the bill was drawn with the provision to lower the high cost ot filing fees a provision that specified that a list of election of more than $25 be filed within 6o days of an election with the state Election Commission Eliminated a provision that says no election official should have to count more than 3un ballots, the bill was drawn with the provision to speed up the process of reporting election returns Removed a provision that would have required that a black patch be placed acroto the numbers ot the ballots so no one could tell how a person voted; the Senate made the patch optional Eliminated a provision that required would be absentee voters to apply lor a ballot either in person or by mail, this would have stopped the practice whereby relatives pick up a ballot The House still has not con curred on the Senate amend ments Alter the bill was amended Purcell said Thanks to the legislatures action, the people of Arkansas can now feel even more that ours is a government of the people Final Arrangements Art Made For Burial PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE the world over and these Soviet draftees look similar to recruits in Western armies, at top is in for usual shock when they get shorn of hair and for army life. Young men at bottom seem resigned to ill-fitting uniforms and military scalp treatment. Hy DON KEEDER Associated Press ABILENE. Kan.

Fellow soldiers, Inends and neigh txirs of Dwight I) Eisenhower completed their sad prepara lions today tor Ins bunal in old home town As the funeral train rolled westward from Washington. Ab made ready to accord the nation's 34th president both public and private memorial services Wednesday Up to 100,000 persons were ex pected to jam their way into this northern Kansas community of 8,000 which once served as the terminus of the old holm cattle trail The weather forecast was partly cloudy skies and temper atures in the 60s The train was expec ted to arrive at the Union Pacific depot late tonight or early Wednesday alter a 1 300 -mile journey bear mg the body of Eisenhower, members of his family and a lew friends It will remain parked the rest of the night near the freight sta Hon. across the street from the Plaza Theater where Eisenhower held his first news conference as a presidential candidate in 1952 An honor guard composed ot men from all the armed services will watch over the $80 steel Army casket during the night President Nixon and his party plan to arrive at 9 a Wednesday at the airport in nearby Salina and come by helicopter to the waiting train about 45 minutes later Shortly after 10 a the 5th Army band will sinke up tin by tun ol Oui Fathers' as ihc coffin is iraiislctred to a Then will begin a proo sion some 450 military sonnel on toot and oIIicmi guesi' mi limousines travel through the Abilene lui'i ness district to Eisenhower en ter at the southeast edge ut town It will take about 45 minute' to cover the route which will be Hanked with rifle bearing members of the armed services toi tiling an honor cordon Dm mg the procession a I 1 in the chapel at Eisenhower Center will toll every live seconds The library is across the street from the white frame house were Eisenhower grew up and the Lincoln grade school which he attended The service will be conducted by the Rev Robert Mac Askill ot the First Presbyterian church of Gettysburg. Pa and the Rev Dean Miller ot Palm Desert. Calil Community church Then the casket will I carried along the broad sidewalk to the tiny chapel about loo yards west of the library to the tune of Blue and Lead Kindly The coffin will be placed on a temporary wooden platform built over a sunken crypt some 15 feet inside the chapel door The body will lie next to that of the Eisenhowers first born son.

Doud Dwight Eisenhower, who died of scarlet fever at the age of 3 in 1921 State Prison Revision Of Procedure Foreseen Build Inc in rnent which said the sale was to any and all rights, easements and privileges now existing The Supreme Court said this, along w.th the fact that a radio station tower and transmission lines were obviously on the land, constituted due notice French that an easement existed AWARD WASHINGTON (APi Rep John Paul Hammer schnudt, Ark announced today the awarding of Army ROTC schol- ships to five Arkansas high school seniors The five will receive free tuition. textbooks, fees and a $5o a month living allowance at any ol the 272 colleges and universities offering the Army program The five are Richard God dard of Jacksonville Michael Johnston of Prairie Grove, Pettus A kincannon Jr of Fort Smith, Charles Martin of Van Buren and Timothy Sav age of Warren HILL SIMMONS Associated Press Writer State prison procedures for notifying authorities about escapees may revamped be cause Sheriff Bill Long ol Washington County got angry over not being told that a convicted killer of a deputy was on the The reasons Long did not know of the escape by Herb Fletcher, 34, are and contusing, possibly even the re suit ot a momentary lapse in his own office But procedural change's by the prisons appear likely anyway 1 suppose a change will made, said Jack Finch, super intendent of Tucker Prison Farm, from which Fletcher lied March 18 Fletcher was serving a life sentence tor the Feb 20, 1967, slaying of Deputy Sheriff Casto Robertson in a county patrol car outside Fletcher home at Lincoln He also was serving 21 years for the wounding ol deputy. Maurice Southern, in the same incident who took office Jan 1, said, This man was responsible for the death ot ot our deputies and he shot another deputy 1 think we should have been notified 1 don't under stand why those down there didn't notify us on this thing I den appreciate it They could have notified us Finch said the prisons do not normally contact local authon ties directly unless is reason to believe they are headed in that direction There are two exceptions to the usual procedure, he said We contact England police and the office at Pine Blutt because they are close he said We also notify the State Police I sually, local authorities learn about escapes troin the State Police Col Bill Miller of the State Police Highway Patrol said that the agency broadcast an alert at 7 09 on March 18 the evening oi the afternoon on which Fletcher escaped It went to all stations lei said said his office stantly monitors State radio talk send he said checked the district headquarters at Huntsville when I finally learned that Fletcher was loose and this Mil con olicc after es didn't know OFFICE EMPTY? DON'T MISS bUSlNf'S CALLS" EL DORAOO ANSWERING SERVICE UN 2-4261 was about 10 day! caped Ttiey still anything about it Actually, Fletcher was tree only about hours Finch said questioning ol Fletchef and another escapee who left with him, Stockton of Little River County, plus checks made ol their stories, this happened MCTUttl Ilf 41 Pictkdi la talar'1 iftUS A Nalliaf treat III Ot Tbe ft fireeat la Sua'HiU Don't Studio 401 COlUMaiA Kmord Pottry Shop 163 The two men left the prison in a state truck and went to Searcy, where they caught a bus. which took them to Okla homa, where they stole a car at Altus, then drove into Texas, where thev were arrested at the town of Oeburne Long said he got wind of Fletcher escape when he was told bv telephone bv someone at Lincoln that Fletcher had been seen in a hotel room I knew he was supposed to be in prison, so 1 Long said Sure enough, he had escaped and we hadn been told about it However Finch says the :16 hours of freedom enjoyed bv Fletcher did not allow am time for any stops at Lincoln, or any other place near Fayetteville The bus he took or either of the two he could have taken didn get north of Fort Smith Finch said How could he have gotten to Lincoln9 It impossible Finch also said Fletcher and Stockton rather indignantly deny having been in Lincoln or any place near there They waived extradition." Finch said Thev ve been verv willing to discuss their trip They were a little upset that I could question their honesty. as a matter of fact They said thev fi.tdn fnvn there and they understand how anyone could think they had F'inch also argues that the Slate Police did indeed broadcast word of the escape as Miller the did I myself heard it 50 times Finch said We have a State Police radio here Long insists that the Huntsville District Headquarters did not know of the escape even 10 days after it took place Milter savs it is possible but lughlv improbable that an all stations broadcast would he received bv some stations and not by others Huntsville for example log these things by number and if a number cumes up blank they usually call and ask wliat happent'd he said Miller also explained that the sheriff call came so long af ter the were hark in the custody that the State polite message probablv had been retired from the active file The case was wrapped up the subject was back in cus Miller it dtdn belong in the active tile, so that probablv whv it wash there when the sheriff learned about it The conflict among the various positions who notified whom who the message to whom, who did or did not know about it 10 days after Aide Savs Is Threat REPORT TO MEMBERS CARL P.

LEIBSDORF Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON 'AP) Sen Fkimund ide rang mg political travels have paid off with a blizzard of speaking invitations and aides say "he has to taken as possible 1972 presidential candi date By the end of April, an aide said, the Maine Democrat who was his party vice presi dential ill have made 60 speeches in 27 states this year, an average of one every two days He has also made speeches in Japan Britain and Canada and is solidly booked into June Muskie began his travels frankly admitting he is considering try ing for the presidency three years from now one Muskie aide said. "Democratic leaders in 27 states know there is an alterna live for 1972 if he decides to By expanding his efforts outside Washington, the senator is follow mg the route that led John Kennedy and Richard to presidential nominations in I960 and 1968 The flood of speaking invitations, aides said, "has noticeably in recent weeks to some a dav APRIL, 1969 A YEAR TO GROW IN! I96H was the biggest growth year in our history 41.084 additional Arkansans joined us last our total membership to 366.41 2. VNe re helping more people pay more hospital and doctor bills than ever before LAST BEST HELP Total paid for care of Arkansas members 550,070.71 Number of bills paid for Arkansas 16,687 Largest payment for care of one Arkansas $4,742.25 Markets ST(H KS Courtsey Schneider Bernet and Hickman, Inc (iarrett Hotel NOONPRIt ES VMERK ST(K KS Arkla (ias Co (ireat Kinark Oil NEW ooper Co tieot gia Pacific Monsanto Co Murphy Oil Corp (Ilm Mathieson Oil of Ind Industries 1) 4 1 1 i A 26 unch 92 46 41 3IS 62 30 unch 30 the estape apparently are beyond a solution, at least at this time All sides plead innocent But the prison did fail in at least one procedural point It didn notifv news media ol the escape didn realize until the following day that we had failed to contact the press Finch said And what did he do Well he said Nothing We just flubbed it He said it wouldn I happen again MORE THAN EVER! In just two years Blue Cross and Blue Shield has seen the monthly total paid oul for care rise nearly now well over SI.5 million each month. imagine what the biggest single of S4.742 tnoted above! would do to a family's budget. think agree Arkansas Blue rovs and Blue Shield membership is NhFIHI) NOW MORE THAN hVER! MEDI-PAK ENROLLMENT OPEN NOW People 65 and older can now join Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medi-Pak.

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