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The Anniston Star from Anniston, Alabama • Page 7

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The Anniston Stari
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Author ities find 'pot' plots in Autauga woods from a nearby dog pen." He -said there were several bulldogs in 7A QV Atttttffrm tttr Tuesday, Aug. 23, 1983 Lincoln poiice find stolen Cadillac -the fenced-in area. "The stalks on these were an inch PRATTVILLE (AP) machetes, chopped down 22 -plots of marijuana plants worth about 1344,000 on the street, Including a tidy garden of stalks watered by hoses running from a dog pen. State trooper spokesman Roy Smith said about 630 plants were found in a heavily wooded area in Autauga County about three miles south of the Chilton County line near U.S. 31.

He said a helicopter pilot who is part of a law enforcement team to rid Alabama of marijuana spotted one of the pot patches Monday afternoon. The pilot notified Sheriff Robert Turner, Smith said, and when deputies reached the thing led to another' until we ended up with 13s plots and one plot of bedding plants." Smith estimated the bedding plot contained 100 seedlings, anywhere from 2 inches to 6 inches tall, while the regular patches had stalks as high as 14 feet. Meanwhile, a helicopter in an area about three miles away found nine plots with only 58 plants, but Smith said, "they were well watered and He said there were "numerous water hoses running down into the LINCOLN A Cadillac stolen from a company in 1 Texas was recovered early Monday Thn in a parking lot at McCaig's Hotel on Alabama 77. and a half to 2 inches in diameter, with some closer to 3," the spokesman said. He said someone had given the plants a lot of "tender loving care." Smith said the plots discovered Monday were smaller than those destroyed by lawmen in the past.

Each was about 20 feet by 30 feet, he said. No arrests were made, he said, but an investigation is under way to find out' who tended the marijuana patches. Lt. Michael Davis of the Lincoln Docket Police Department said the car belonged to Playhouse Designs Inc. of Corsicana, Texas.

While officer Mike Weems was patroling the hotel parking lot, he noticed that the hubcaps and license plate were missing from the car, and upon further inspection, saw that the radio had been stolen, Davis said. An identification check of the car indicated that It was stolen. Ballard Gadsden; a sister, Miss Winona Chancellor of Centre; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Mrs. Mackey was a Cherokee County native and a member of Centre First United Methodist Church.

Couple charged in child's death DOTHAN (AP) A Dothan couple is jailed witfKKt bond on murder charges stemming from the betting death of the woman's 13-month-old daughter, poiice said. Officers arrested Ira Lee McDuffie, 29, and Charles Edward Green, 21, on Friday night after the woman's daughter, Alexis Baldwin, was admitted to the Southeast Alabama Medical Center with severe head injuries. Police Lt. Harold Locke said the couple told officers the child had fallen off a bed. Phillips TODAY AUGUSTA SMITH CHAPTER No.

427, Order of the Eastern Star, will meet at 8 p.m. at the Masonic hall in Oxford. WEAVER ATHLETIC BOOSTERS club will, meet at 7 p.m. at the high school. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS will meet at 8 p.m.

at the First United MethodistXhurch, 14th and Noble streets, and at 11 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church on 10th Street in Anniston. For more information, call 237-1432. TINNEY STREET Church of Christ in Talladega will have a gospel meeting through Friday at 7:30 nightly. THE PILOT CLUB of Anniston will meet at 6:30 p.m.

at home of Mrs. Paula Smith for a family picnic. ALEXANDRIA MASONIC Lodge No. 208 will meet at 7 p.m. at the Masonic Temple in Alexandria.

Light refreshments will be served. PARENTS ANONYMOUS will meet at 6:30 p.m. Free transportation and child care are available. For more information, call 236-4577. THE APPLEBAMIAN APPLE Computer Users group will meet at 7 p.m.

at Kemp's Officenter, 1201 Noble Anniston. JACKSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL Athletic Boosters Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. for a covered-dish supper in the high school cafeteria. PEACE AND GOODWILL Baptist Church will have revival through Friday at 7 nightly. The Rev.

S.H. Young will speak. PHILADELPHIA BAPTIST CHURCH east of Piedmont, will have a revival through Friday at 6:30 nightly. The Rev. Durey Tierce will speak.

TUESDAY NIGHT SINGERS will meet at 6:45 p.m. at the Oxford Civic Center for practice. THE OXFORD SCHUTZHUND Club will meet at 7 p.m. to train dogs at the club's training grounds on County Line Road, south of Cheaha Baptist Church in Oxford. Training includes obedience, tracking, protection.

For information, call 831-1460. WEDNESDAY WRITES GAP BAPTIST CHURCH will have revival through Friday at 7 nightly. Randy Wheeler will speak. THOMAS A. WILLIAMS Temple No.

1286 will meet at 7 p.m. at the lodge home, 1220 Pine Anniston. DAUGHTERS OF THE ELKS will sponsor a disco at 8 p.m. at the Elks Lodge on Pine Avenue in Anniston. Admission is $1.

CHAMPAGNE BEAUTIES CB Club will meet at 6 p.m. at the home of Hazel McLaughlin, 713 Lincoln Hobson City. Calendar Items are published without cost as a public service, usually on the day before and the day of the event. Items for the calendar must reach The Star's newsroom no later than 9 a.m. for weekday publication; by noon Friday for Saturday publication and by 3 p.m.

Saturdays for Sundays. ASHLAND -r Services for Johnathan Ballard, of Ashland will be announced by Strickland and Sims Funeral Home of Talladega. Mr. Ballard died Monday at his residence. Cox 1 TALLADEGA Services for Mitchel Cox, 85, of Talladega will be announced by Strickland and Sims Funeral Home.

Mr. Cox died today at Talladega Nursing Home. Craft LINEVILLE Services for Mrs. Bernice H. Craft, 61, of Lineville, Rt.

3, will be announced by Benefield Funeral Home of Lineville. Mrs. Craft died Monday at Clay County Hospital. Easterwood Services for Randall Hugh Easterwood, 27, of An-niston, Rt. 5, were today at Bethel Baptist Church in Clay County with the Rev.

Jimmy Minter and the Rev. John Skinner officiating. Burial was in the adjoining cemetery with Benefield Funeral Home of Lineville in charge. Mr. Easterwood died Sunday at Regional Medical Center.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Jerri W. Easterwood of Anniston; a daughter, Miss Shonda Easterwood of Anniston; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Billy H.

Easterwood of Delta; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Shellie Frames Sr. of Delta; a sister, Miss Sharon D. Easterwood of Oxford; and two brothers, Roger Easterwood of Anniston and Danny Easterwood of Bowdon, Ga.

Pallbearers were Rory Holcombe, Perry Tuggle, Bill Johnson, Lyn Bates, Terry Bean and Phillip Frames. Mr. Easterwood was a native of Clay County, a former resident of Cleburne County, and a resident of Anniston for the past five years. He was an employee of FMC Corp. in Anniston and a Baptist.

Tired of Fast Food Try Lunch With You'll find we have a wide variety of meats vegetables cooked fresh daily, and our sandwiches are scrumptious, and if all reasonably priced. Lunch Served 11 'til 2 Now Serving Sunday Lunch 1 1 -2 HEFLIN Services for James Phillips of Heflin will be announced by Strickland and Sims Funeral Home of Talladega. Mr. Phillips died Monday at Mary Brandon Nursing Home in Oxford. Pritchett CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.

Services for Mrs. Katherine Stacks Pritchett of Chattanooga, formerly of Calhoun County, will be Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Eugene Turner Funeral Home chapel with Dr. Walter Wendelken officiating. Burial will be in National Cemetery.

Mrs. Pritchett died Sunday at Parkridge Hospital in Chattanooga. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Geraldine Waters of Chattanooga and Mrs. Mae Steelman of Detroit; a son, Roy Saxon of Texas; 14 grandchildren; 13 greatgrandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Pritchett was a member of Highland Park Baptist Church. She was the former owner and operator of the Curve Inn Restaurant in Chattanooga. Sexton SYLACAUGA Services for Earlie Sexton, 73, of Sylacauga will be announced by Strickland and Sims Funeral Home. Mr.

Sexton died Sunday at St. Vincents Hospital in Birmingham. Sims DUNNELLON, Fla. Graveside services for Mrs. Dallas Bing Sims, 74, of Dunnellon, formerly of Cherokee County, will be Wednesday at 2 p.m.

at Young's Chapel Cemetery in Cherokee County with Perry Funeral Home in charge. Mrs. Sims died Saturday in Dunnellon. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Alice Anderson of Ozello, Mrs.

Linda Brady of Inveress, and Miss Violet Sims of Stark, two sons, Ben Sims of Dunnellon and Troy G. Sims of Lake Butler, Fla. two sisters, Mrs. Maude Gentry and Mrs. Lorene Wells, both of Centre; three brothers, Charlie Bing and Cecil Bing, both of Centre, and Woodrow W.

Bing of Hunts ville; and 14 grandchildren. Truss TALLADEGA Services for J.B. Truss, 60, of Talladega, Rt. 6, will be announced by Terry's tan Mortuary. Mr.

Truss died today at Baptist Medical Center-Montclair in Birmingham. Closed Monday 1411 Quintard Avt. 236-6351 English Mass grave found in Yugoslavia LINCOLN Services for Mrs. Lucille English, 67, of Lincoln, Rt. 1, will be announced by Strickland and Sims Funeral Home.

Mrs. English died Monday at her residence. refused to recognize the puppet regime established by the extremist group, called Ustasha, during the Nazi tilE IJJ. Mackey 7W WHVal MTU A 11 ZAGREB, Yugoslavia (AP) Fishermen have discovered a mass grave of people killed by a Croatian extremist group during World War II on the banks of the Sava River, the daily Vjesnik reported. The newspaper said Monday the river's low water level during the summer made the remains visible.

About 700,000 people are believed to have been killed at Jasenovac, 53 miles southeast of Zagreb, because they Mini ft on a CENTRE Services for Mrs. Annie Burton Mackey, 89, of Centre will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Perry Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Mack Chapman officiating. Burial will be in Cherokee Memorial Gardens.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 9 tonight at the funeral home where the body will be through services. Mrs. Mackey died Monday at her residence. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Mary Burton Newsome of Centre; a 'son, Ralph Mackey Jr.

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