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The Mexia Daily News from Mexia, Texas • Page 2

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CRY, Will Bontter bursts into tears as his Chicago Parker High School team seems to be losing in overtime. The coach dried his tears when the team came through the final seconds "to win. Britain Continues To Build Up Its Military Force In Malaysia SINGAPORE (AP) BritishJEagle and Victorious, the corn-) Britain's army minister, Free armed service spokesmen con-i mand ship Bulwark, guidediMulley, was told by U. Gen firmed todav that Britain's mili-i missile destroyers and fast-jOsman Bin Jewa, Malaysia'! moving fngates. jarmed forces commander, tha tary strength in the Malaysian area is at its highest peak since the end of the Korean War.

The spokesmen were commenting on London reports thai British attd other Commonwealth troops in Malaysia now total 50,000. rapid buildup is under Way to counter a threat frsm Indonesia which is reported massing Six warships, four of them minesweepers, are being taken out of mothballs and added to the fleet. Eagle Malaysia may need more Brit ish help. Mulley spent an hour at the Defense Ministry in Kuala Lumpur closeted with Osman harbor, the fleet' and other defense officials will be the "biggest British nav-l in tne windup of a two-day visi al concentration in the world," to Kuala Lumpur. When steams the into the spokesman said.

A Royal Air Force British troops, said to number repre-i as man a 10,000, are now in -tentative said a number of Malav sian Borneo, helping man forces in bases surrounding Ma- lanes has beell added to the a defense line against Indone- laysia. and it now "has sufficient sian guerrillas. Mulley is sched A navy spokesman said Fari power to deter any aggression led to visit them before he East ships; number more than 70; He declined to give details but ileaves. and include such power-packed) noted reporis tnat Britain's V-j A BritJsh spokesman said vessels as the aircraft in England have been iMulley will spend the Weekend put on standby orders. in Singapore, There are also V-bombers in Singapore, conferring with Britain's Far East militaiv possibly a dozen known to be chiefs, then fly Monday to Jes stationed in Malaysia, mostly onfselton in the Borneo state of Sa the northwestern coast of the bah.

Malaysian mainland. Troop strength is being bolstered by the transfer here 500 paratroopers from England and a similar number of Gurk- has from Hong Kong. Five Indonesian infiltratorsi were captured near Singapore. A brief communique said the five were members of a small armed band, believed to total 14, reported to have landed Fri- Funeral Services Set Sunday For Freestone Native Funeral services for Rober Crenshaw, 69, of the Shiloh Freestone County, will be held lifelong resident community in day morning. A police spokesman said villagers had alerted Sunday at 2 p.m.

'in Brown authorities after they spotted Chapel A.M.E. Church in the armed strangers in the Tanjong'Plum Creek community. Piai area of Johore State, some A native of Freestone Coun- I FT SHOP 180 air miles southeast of Kuale Lumpur and adjacent to Singapore. In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's Foreign Ministry spokesman held out the possibility that Indonesia's withdrawal from the United Nations was the result oi a "preconceived arrangement" between that country and Communist China. The spokesman, Ahman Nordin, warned this could mean "a growing coalition between Indonesia and Peking and closer identity of purpose and policy." Nordin said one likely effect would be an intensification of Indonesia's military efforts to crush Malaysia.

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in the Freestone County Hospital at Fairfidd. He was a farmer and a member of Prince Hall Masonic Lodge Mr. Crenshaw was a Baptist and a veteran of World War I. Officiating will be the Rev. J.

E. Williams, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church. Burial will be in Brown Chapel Cemetery, Freestone County, under direction of the Dorsey-Keatts Funeral Home. Surviving are his wife of Rte. 3, Oakwood; three daughters, Mrs.

Lois Gilford, Mrs. Ruthie Mae Colbert and Mrs. Annie Ruth Cunningham, all of Route 3, Oakwood; five sons, Amos Crenshaw, John L. Crenshaw and Alton Crenshaw, all of Fort Worth, Engram Crenshaw and Leonard C. Crenshaw, both of Route 3, Oakwood; three sisters, Mrs.

Daisy Styles of Austin, Mrs. Marie Townsend of San Mater, and Mrs. Georgia, Roberts of Palo Alto, ive brothers, Sylvester Boyd and Oscar Boyd, both of Austin, Johnnie Boyd of San Mater, Jimmie Crenshaw and Jasper Crenshaw, both of Chi' cago; and 19 grandchildren. Low-Income Families In Rural jRLfifSl Areas Have New Credit Service A new credit Service 16 Mp tftelf fafmtoi tow-income families in rUraljneW businesses, areas raise their incomes is now available in Tefcas. aticdfd- ing to State Director, L.

Farmers Home Administration. Mr. Capplemafl said today the new service opens up FarttlefS Administration credit aid tor the first time to many ncome rural families who previously Were either public unable to obtain or private loans to improve their earnings. All County offices in Texas, Cappleman said, applications for are accepting loans up Farmefle ttoffte Adffiinlstfa tten, a tJs IS. ttepartmettt of; A cooperative, to be eligible, most be primarily composed bf and serve Idw-income rural and be unable to obtain $2,500 to finace farming enter prises, small family businesses trades and services.

Rural cooperatives serving low-indom families and providing services and facilities not otherwise a vailable may also be eiigibl for credit under the program Borrowers will be provider continuing management aid t( help them make a success, of Agricuttwe agency, will admin- istet the ftan gervtee under recently delegated authority from the OtfJee Economic Opportunity. loafi terms and condittoRS tot partteipattttg income families allow for an interest fate Of pfefCfent. To be eligible for the new rural credit fcfograffl, and applicant must live in a rural area, have an income that does not cover basic family necessities, be unable to ttbtain credit from other sditfces, including the regular loan program the Par- mers Home Administration, and show A reasonable promise of succeeding in the enterprise to be financed by tfie toan. VIET NAM Pi-em 1 credit from other sources. About 3.5 million families in rural areas across the country, sJfflf SW.tWU farm families, ard unable to obtain credit to; terprises.

"The hew Credit program is budgeted at for the tUrfent fiscal year. to-addition to the new credit service, the Farmers Home Administration serves all rural counties in Texas with loans to finance farm operations, buy and enlarge farms, construct rural housing and develop community water systems, recreation areas and grazing land, it also provices a program of emergency loans, watershed loahs and rural renewal loans. American aid, suspended since Dec. 20, were expected soon. The communique followed a meeting that extended through most of Friday night at a sea- lease of the prisoners.

plans for meeting between taylor and tfhanh, who have been the primary antagonists. Taylor had sought an immediate pullback by the young generals who staged the purge, re- of the council and re- side resort involving Huong, Khanh, and most of his generals. Khanh and Deputy U.S. Ambassador tl. Alexis Johnson met this afternoon at Khanh's residence.

It was the first time either Johnson or Ambassador Maxwell Taylor had conferred with Khanh since the crisis began. There were immediate One obsever here commented: "All it does really is legalize what the armed forces did on t)ec. 20." While the political maneuvers took place in Saigon, the Communists attacked a company oi Vietnamese Soldiers 10 miles southwest of Saigon, killing an American officer. USE THE WANT ADS CORLEY'S FUNERAL HOME AMBULANCE Sir-vice (Oxygen Cadlllsc AIR CONDITIONED INVALID C6ACM6S) We Accept Any at Phone SAGE is a reason Shiraly Muslimov is rated a national hero of the Soviet Union. He is reputed to be 159 years old and still active.

In this photo from a Soviet source, he is shown in Azerbaijan, U.S.S.R. ,1 OUTSTANDING YOUNG FARMER IS CHOSEN DALLAS, (AP) Roger George, a peanut fanner from Stephenville, was named the state's outstanding young farmer Friday night at the awards dinner banquet of the Young Farmers of Texas. George, 29, received $1,000 in government bonds and an engraved watch. Groesbeck Man's Riles Scheduled Sunday At Doyle Funeral services for Clem Graves, of Groesbeck, will be held Sunday at 1 p.m. in the Mount Gideon Primitive Baptist Church in the Doyle community.

A native of Limestone County, Mr. Graves died Jan. 1 at 10:06) a.m. in Ben Taub Hospital, Houston. He was a assistant and Was a Primitive Baptist.

Mr. Graves had ed in Limestone County all" his life. Conducting the rites will bell the Rev. R. C.

Butcher. Burial I will be in Doyle Cemetery, under direction of the Keatts Funeral Home. Surviving are his wife, of uroesbeck; three sons, Hiawatha Graves and C. G. Graves, joth of Houston, and Wilder Graves of Los Angeles, ive daughters, Miss Debris raves and Rosetta GraVfes, of Groesbeck, Mrs.

Lorene Slacknall, Miss Allean Graves and Miss Willie Pearl Graves, all of Houston; two sisters, Mrs. Clara Smith and Miss Graves, both of Groesbeck; three brothers, Charles Graves, Wade Graves and Wild' er Graves, all of Groesbeck; and 1.5 grandchildren. Reidl-Mix CONCaETI Pellvertd Anywbert C. A. STEPHENS College But.

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