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THI -PARIS NEWS, SUNDAY, NOV. 14, 1965 Riddle Takes Federal Post Leaves Paris Fnif-pr Sunday at 2 pjn. is the hour rubier fof faneral Holly Funeral services for Mrs. G.H. Creek Baptist Church near Foster, 48, of Reno community, with interment in Holly Creek rj Don Riddle, a Paris vet- Paris, Rt.

2, were held Friday Cemetery by Norwood-Wei erinariaa. will close his office in Fry Gibbs chapel, by the of Idabel. here this weekend and wi 11 Rev. George R. Lewis and the I Five children survive: Cec i 1 leave Moaday for Arlington, Va.

Bev. Kirk M. Beard. i Cox, Arley Cox and Mrs. Ruby where he will take a posilioi Interm was made i Gamble, all of Broken Bow; Knights of Honor Cemetery, the i Mrs.

Jim Barksdale, Hammond, James Anderson. with the Food and Drug Administration. bearers being Lois Noweli, Rich-! and Mrs. Homer West- rj Riddle will be work ing ard Wright, P. E.

Lee, Jo brook. New Orleans, also with the Bureau of Medicine in Porter, Leslie Boren 30 other descendants, besides the field of new drug investiga- i two brothers and a sister IE tion. i California. Bradley Service ed, Norwood-Welch of Idabel directing interment. Mrs.

Pardone, born in Ok la- Services for William J. Bradley, 49, of Fort Worth, formerly of Paris, were conducted Friday in Fry Gibbs chapel here, burial being made in Union Grove Cemetery. Bearers were Hubert Cagle, Mo Cagle, Rush McCIain, Fred Smith, Herman McCIain and Charles Ferguson. Mr. Bradley, formerly employed by a tree expert service in Fort Worth, died there Nov.

10, after a year's illness. Swindell Burial Burial rites for Joe O. Swindell, 64, Brookston, Rt. 1, who died Nov. 10, were held Friday in Forest Hill Cemetery, north of High, after service in Gene stepson, John Pardone both Roden Sons chapel here.

£35 "cruces The Rev. Alfred Butler. De- Bother descendants and troit, and the Rev. Gene Mur- two half-brothers: Leon ard ray, Brookston, officiated, and ward, Golden, and Troy Ward, bearers were Mack Owen, Ger- Millerton. aid Gates.

Bob Gates, John Shipman, Bennie and; Robert Hughes Oscar Kyser. Fordone Funeral Oklahoma News Bureau BROKEN BOW, Okla. service for Mrs. John Par- dose, 57, was held Saturday in Broken Bow Cemetery after service in St. Francis deSa 1 es Catholic Church, IdabeL The Dr.

Riddle moved here in 1952 and established, his veterinary hospital in 1953. Ee said be has not leased the yet, but will close it. "For several years," Dr, Riddie said, "I have had a yen to do the type of work I have been offered. It is one of those things that vou don't know how it will Rev. Francis Schenk and work out until you've tried it.

so Rev. Robert Valenza officiat-i that's how it is." Building .22 Mrs. Riddle and their four! children wfll remain in Paris until the school term ends. homa. Dec.

24, 1S97, died Nov. Tbe Riddles own a farm west i 11 in Memorial Hospital, Idabel. Paris, but do not plan to sell! ides her husband, because "This is the type Yrjac- leaves three children: Mrs. C. F.

Gamble, in Virginia; Mrs. Delmer May, Haysville, and a son by a former mar- William Emerson, and a George J. Spann George Jack Spann, S3 of Plainview, formerly of Paris, died of illness Friday while visiting in Fort Worth. He was born at Roxton, Aug. 13.

1882. son of William C. and Martha (McGovern) Spann. The funeral, Sunday at 3 will be held in First Baptist Church at Roxton, wh re: burial in Restland Cemetery wfll i be made by Gene Roden fc'Sons of Paris. Mr.

Spann, made his home here until two years ago, when he moved to Plainview. His wife, Mollie, died Jan. 15, 1954. He leaves three children: Clyde Spann, Plainview: Mrs. Dorothy Dockery.

Fort Worth, and Mrs. Clara Dixon, Montgomery, nine other descendants; Also six sisters: Mrs. Charlie Henly. and Mrs. C.

H. Kadane. Jacksboro; Mrs. Frank Jones and Mrs. Roy Haralson, Paris: Mrs.

Gene Helms, Sacramento, and Mrs. W. A. Senter, San Diego, Calif. Henderson Rites Oklahoma News Bureau HUGO, Okla.

Funeral services for Mrs. R. L. Henderson, who died Tuesday in Anadarko. were held there Saturday.

Widow of a former Hugo den- i tist. Mrs. Henderson lived here' about 25 years ago. Two daughters survive. Kenneth Porter Oklahoma News Bureau HUGO, Okla.

Services were held Friday in Corpus Christi, for Kenneth Porter, husband of the former Miss Maxine Moore, daughter of Mrs. Arthur Moore, Hugo. Mr. Porter died Wednesday in Corpus Christi of injuries suffered in an automobile accident on Monday. J.

M. Derryberry Oklahoma News Bureau IDABEL. Okla. Robert Hughes. 52.

principal of the Redland School, died unexpectedly of an apparent heart attack at home near Idabel, Friday at 3:30 a.m. He was born at Haworth, July 4, 1913, and was a longtime McCurtain teacher. The funeral, in Redland Church of Christ Sunday at 2 will be conducted by Leon Green, with burial in Redland Cemeterv bv Norwood-Welch of IdabeL Mr. Hughes leaves his wife, Marie; two children, Mel a Hughes, Redland, and Kenneth Hughes. Mesquite, six brothers and sisters: Ray ond Hughes.

Redland; Marvin Hughes, Mrs. Lois Duckw and Mrs. Elece Stanford, all of Shidler: Mrs. Floyd Polla d. Idabel, and Mrs.

Cora Lee Nish- ols, Haworth. Hulen Services Oklahoma News Bureau HUGO, Okla. The funeral of Mrs. Edd Hulen, 68, who died Nov. 11, will be held Sunday at 3 p.m.

at Lampton Funeral Home here. The Rev. Milo Martin of the Church of the Nazarene, will officiate, interment to be made in Mount Oli Cemetery. place we want to come back to," the veterinarian said. I He is currently serving as county Republican chairm a n.

but has filed his resignation. He was president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce here and state vice president of the group. He has been president of the Toastmasters here and area governor of that organization, was county chairman of the National Foundation for five years, and was on the board of directors of the Chamber of m- merce. Dr. Riddle said, It is i mixed emotions that I lea Paris, but the opportunity with the Bureau of Medicine has been offered me, and I've got to try it." Valley Tourist Group Gathers At Paris Meet At a meeting last week of the board of directors of the Indian Nation Tourist Council, of which Lsmar County is a memb a report on the foliage tour held Nov.

7 termed it most successful. The meeting was held at the Ramada Inn Restaurant, and John Biard and Charles Powell, members of the council, were local hosts for the busin ess meeting. There was no way to get an accurate count of Texas people visiting, but restaurants and service station personnel sa i Mrs. Hulen's husband was tne ere ust overrun" by criticiaUy fll in Memorial Hos- Texas automobiles. pital Thursday, when his wife was pronounced dead on arrival, after a sudden seizure a home.

Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Oscar Smart, Hugo, and Mrs. Frona Ballard, Dallas. Tex. The former Dora May Gustin, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. L. W. Gustin. Mrs, Hulen was born in Lamar Countv.

Texas, Sept. 16. 1S94. The family moved to Oklahoma about 1903, and she was married here July 31, 1927. She the Red i Cafe, on West Jackson Street for 35 years.

Oklahoma News Bureau IDABEL, Okla. Services for John M. Derryberry, 40 of Springfield, who died in Mrs. Lester Peek Paris News Service CLARKSVILLE Mrs. Les- Richmond.

will be held 84, of Annona died in Clarksville at Live Oak Con! valeseent Center Friday noon. The former Cora Lee Stout, here in Norwood-Welch chapel, Sunday at 2 p.m. W. W. Starnes, Church Christ minister, will officiate.

1 daug of Francis Marian interment being arranged to Stout and his wife, who was Denison Cemeterv. i Alice Christian. Mrs. Peek was Born in Nov. 5, 1925, bprn Sept.

23, 1881, in Hopkins Mr. Derryberry had lived It was reported that the leaves were faffing rapidly and the color probably would not last more than one more weekend. Goren Campbell, manager of the Chamber of Commerce at Hugo, was appointed a temporary executive vice president of the organization and given the responsibility to coordinate the activities and exchange of brochures and information for the council. Each county was encouraged to begin developing its portion of the brochure for the four- county distribution Choctaw. McCurtain and Pushmat aha in Oklahoma and Larnar County in Texas.

Robert Pierson is in charge of the Lamar County touri development, and he has appointed Jack Kothe as chairman of the local brochure. Kothe has held one meeting to begin the brochure. The three local directors from Lamar County are Ben Dodson. a vice president, Biard and Powell, who are directors. past four years in Springfield.

He eaves his wife, Pauline and a daughter. Per.nv. of Par i Ark. William H. Page Oklahoma News Bureau ANTLERS, Okla.

Services for William Henrv Page, 75, were announced tentatively for to whom she was married at County. Funeral service, Sunday at' 2:30 p.m., will be held in Salem where Mrs. Peek was a mem-! ber, the Rev. Claude Martin and On Friday, Nov. 19.

members the Rev. Jerry Boyd officiating, i of the Women's Auxiliary to St. Clarksville Funeral Home has direction of burial in Gilli a Cemetery. Peek leaves her husband Monday in First Baptist Church Mission here, with inter nt Boxelder, Nov. 27, 1904; five children: Dale Peek, San Beni- in City Cemetery by Coffey Fu- to; Ebb Peek and L.J.

Peek Annona: Mrs. Mike Colker, Lubbocfc, and Mrs. Robert neral Home. Mr. Page died of illness in Pushmataha County Hospi al here, Nov.

11. Surviving are his wife, Vera; and eight children, among them, Miss Elaine Page and Miss Jone Page, both of Antlers, besides 35 other descendants, and one sister. Mrs. Rosie T- Cox Oklahoma News Bureau BROKEN BOW. Okla.

Mrs. Rosie Tollison Cox, 84, die here Friday in the Bro ken Bow Nursing Home. Born at Kirby, Dec. 20, 1880, she had lived in McCurtain County, 56 years, and was a Church of Christ member. Browning, New Orleans; Also seven grandchildren; a brother, Guy Stout, Id a 1, and three sisters: Mrs.

E. M. Peek and Mrs. John Floyd, Annona, and Mrs. Lee Brem, Clarksville.

Joseph's Hospital will hold a bake sale at The Embers. The Lamar County Branch of the Association for Childho Education will meet Monday at 7 p.m. in the Texas Power and Light Co. conference room. The trash pickup schedule for the City of Paris for the coming week is: Monday, Zone Tuesday, Zone Wednesday.

Zone Thursday, Zone Friday, Zone 5. Hours for the Sanitary Landfill are 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION (A NON-PROFIT ASSOCIATION) Burial Spaces, with Perpetual Care, 1100.00 each.

Payment Plan for purchase prior to need Is available. Call Superintendent Wm. Moomaw, SU4-6750 for Information. Oklahoma News Bireu HUGO, Okla. Hugo post office patrons will transact business in their new mail center en Monday, Nov.

22, Postmaster Ike Webb announces. Service will be contin from the local office thr ugh Saturday noon, Nov. 20, the remainder of that day and Sunday being used for moving. Post office box patrons are expected to receive mail in their new boxes on Sunday, Nov. 21 having previously exchanged old keys for new during the week prior to the move.

Webb and other postal service employes point out that the move will be a tremendous undertaking but every effort will be made to handle the transition as smoothly as possible. The new brick structure on the corner of Fourth and East Jackson streets wfll be the sixth location for the post office i Hugo, as it is known today, since 1904, according to old records. First was in a frame building on the w-est side of what now is lha 100 block of South Broadway, not far from the north end. Later it occupied the site of today's DeWeese building at 107 East Jackson; then the old Brader building on the west Five Injured In Accidents At SEO Dam Oklahoma News Bureau BROKEN BOW, Okla. Five McCurtain County work men.

injured in two separate accidents Nov. 11 at the Broken Bcw dam site, were the first casualties since construct ion! was begun. i A falling rock struck Dan Olson, 30, and also Curtis Cooke, 31, Idabel, while they were at work in the power tunnel, Olson being reported in critical condition from a skull fracture and Cook having a crushed vertebra. Olson was taken to a Texarkana hospital, where Co was moved after emerge treatment in DeQueen, Ark. In the other accident, Dillard Johnson of Plunkettville was reported critically injured when a part of the machinery in the tunnel slipped.

At this time also, minor injuries were received by Carl Mueller and Norman L. Willis, both of Broken Bow. They, like the others hurt, were taken to Texarkana, but Mueller and Willis were expected to be back at work within the w-eek. side of North Broadwav near the south end of the 200" block; then the site of the present Eastland buflding on the corner of Second and East Jac fc on streets, -and, for the past 25 years, the present location at Second and East Kirk streets. Two-Car Crash Hospitalizes 6 At Clarksville Paris News Service CLARKSVILLE Six persons were admitted to Red River County Hospital here Saturday after a two-car collision three miles east of Detroit at 1:30 p.m.

Four were dismissed later after receiving treatment for minor injuries. Remaining in the hospital were the driver and passenger of a 19S1 Valiant. Lester Martin and Ron Taylor. Dismissed were the Rev. J.

D. Griffith, pastor of the Assembly of God Church here, his wife, daughter and son. Highway Patrolman Roy Williams, who investigated "the crash, said the Griffith famfly was headed east on Highway 82 in a 1962 Pontiac. The Valiant, driven by Martin, who lives north of Clarksville, came onto the highway from a side road and the two cars collided. Williams said he had not been able to get any other details of the accident late Saturday.

AIRLINE (Continued iroro Page One) aircraft rental, air-taxi, rent-a- car, aircraft gasoline and a i r- craft. sales are now availble at Cox Field and plans are set in the near future for stocking jet fuel and providing aircraft storage and maintenance. Aerosmith Airlines, Broussard said, has offices in the terminal building at Cox Field. Janet Kay is the name given the daughter born Oct. 26 at Lamar Medical Center to Mr.

and Mrs. Elmer Arthur Leigh, 956-6th SE. Grandparents are Mr, and Mrs. John Reco Hugo, and Mr. and Mrs.

Lawrence Watts, Springf i 1 Mo. BEATEN (Continued from Page One) day afternoon by a rancher who heard his faint cries for help. He was rushed fay ambulance to the hospital where he is being treated for bruises, shock and exposure. The left side of his face was one huge bruise, his left eye was swollen shut and his right eye was blackened. Several years ago Mansell underwent an operation for cataracts on his eyes and was forced to wear the thick lens.

His glasses were lost in his struggle with his assailant, he said. Mansell said he knew of no motives for the attack and he knew nothing about a key. The political editor was reported missing by his wife when he failed to return home Friday night. His absence was not noticed at the office because he had been working for several days on a story about Houston's Nov. 20 mayoralty election.

Religious Film Showing Here A 6fl-minute dramatic motion picture, 'The Power of the Resurrection," will be shown here Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. undOr sponsorship of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The. film, which will be shown in the Paris Junior College auditorium, has as its sub-tit I ''The Power of the Living Christ in Peter." Tickets for the film will go on sale here Tuesday.

They will be SI for adults and 50 cents for children. A Family Films production, the film opens with the aged Peter in prison with other Christians awaiting unknown tortures and possible death. He instills courage and faith in a frightened young man by telling him of his own trials of faith. at first he was proud and boastful until the real test of his faith came. Peter tells the young man what happened when he denied his Lord that dark night of betrayal and what a difference it made in Mm when the resurrected Lord talked with him and the promised power of the Holy Spirit filled with sucii an unconquerable faith that! nothing could shake "him.

The young man catches Peter's strong faith. Just before the guards led Peter away; his final words are full of the power of the risen Christ as he tells the young man: "The power of His ressurrec- tion was not just for the day in which He rose from the dead- it is for today for you and me. He is alive! And because He is, though they destroy us, we, too, shall live." 1965 Woman Of Year Due Tuesday The announcement of Business Woman of the Year will be the highlight of the evening Tuesday when the Paris Business and Professional Women's Club will stage the annual Boss Night banquet at Holiday Inn. Deadline for nominating the Business Woman of the Year is Monday noon and ballots and recommendations must be in the offices of the Chamber of Commerce before that time to be considered. Reservations for the banquet, which begins at 7 p.m., must be made by Monday morning.

Committee in charge of this year's event is the Citizenship Privileges committee with Mrs. Jim Christian as chairm a n. Mrs. Nell Martin is co-chairman and committeewomen are Mrs. Ralph Scudder.

Mrs. R.L. Stapleton, Mrs. Roy Graves and Miss Sheila Ellington. Bill H.

Thompson, managing editor of The Paris News, will be guest speaker. Specialties will include songs by Miss Diane McGaughey, scholarship recipient, and the Rev. David Benningfield, music and educational director at First Methodist Church. Mrs. Jim Mussetter, 1964 Business Woman of the Year, will introduce the 1965 Business Woman, which will be kept secret until Tuesday evening.

New Teacher Is Engaged Paris News Service HONEY GROVE The Honey Grove School Board, at its monthly session, engaged Miss Patricia Ruth Brown from Longview as teacher of first and second grades at Pen-, dleton School. She replaces Mrs. Sammy Rogers who resigned to take a high school position in Mount Pleasant. Rayford Stroud presided at the meeting, held in the office of Supt. D.

R. Brooks. Cafe to Re-Open At Honey Grove Paris News Service HONEY GROVE The Main Street cafe here has been leased Irom Mr. and Mrs. J.

L. Carley, by Mr. and Mrs. C. E.

Gregory from Camden. who plan to re-open it Saturday, Nov. 20, as the Greg and Loraine Main Cafe. DISASTER The cafe, which has been closed several weeks, is being re-decorated by the Gregorys, who have been operating a cafe in Camden the past 18 months. They formerly lived in Colorado.

(Continued From Page One) boat. We had to paddle it with the oars like a canoe. "The crew had no water with which to fight the fire. The hoses just lay on the deck." Several other survivors said they were awakened by screams, not by the ship's alarm system. don't know what woke us up." said George Lucchi- si, 62, a government employe from Washington, D.

who was separated from his wife in the confusion. "We came out of our cabin and people were running back and forth. We got separated in the smoke. I looked ail over for my wife but I couldn't find her in the dark and confusion. "But there was no panic.

The men helped the women and children off first and the crew did a fine job." William R. Elder, 45. of Orlando, and his wife, Emmie, 35, said, "We heard a lot of noise and opened the door and smoke poured in. "We couldn't get into a lifeboat. They were all crowded.

We climbed down a ladder into a lifeboat from the Bahama Star." "We didn't have any life jackets and I thought we might die. We were so mixed up and scared it was terrible." Four stretcher cases were brought off the Bahama Star first, followed by several walking injured, some of them barefoot and wrapped in blankets. One woman happily kissed a ship's officer at the top of the gangplank, then rushed down to the waiting arms of her father. She was Kay Thompson, 30, daughter of Nassau Sen. and Mrs.

K. M. Thompson. "There was no warning," she said. "People were just running around and we found burned people on the deck." Florence Kekelio, 55.

of Cleveland, Ohio, and her daughter, Carole Pendalton, 26, of Ashtabula, Ohio, said they were awakened by a rap on the door. "When we opened it there was a flash of name," Mrs. Kekelio said. "It seared our faces and necks. I'm not sure how we got to the deck.

We climbed down ropes into a lifeboat." GENE RODEN SONS Masons Confer Education Week Honor at Hugo Oklahoma News Bureau HUGO, Okla. Twenty outstanding Choctaw County school students were honored by Hugo Masonic bodies Thursday night when they received framed certificates of merit when lodge and schools joined in observing American Education Week. The program a held in Hugo Junior High school auditorium. Certificates were present also to the ten schools in the local Blue Lodge's jurisdiction. Students and schools recognized were: Jimmie Ellis and Roxanna Forthman of Eugene Fields school: Bobby Lindamood and Rhonda Teague, Horace Mann school; Robert Dale Langley and Wanda Dell Goodwin, Robert E.

Lee sch Curtis Inge and Peggy Frost, Ben FrankJin school: i ky Evans and Hope Bodine, Hugo Junior High school; John son Cobb and Annie Askew, Hugo High School; Lee Ayres and Bobby Matlock, Messer school; Bertram Shomo and Pam 1 a Pratt, Goodland school: Stockton and Linda Higgins. Bearden Springs school; John Stephens and Glenna Flanagan. Grant school. The coming Thursday night District Judge L-averne Fishel of Coalgate will be princi al speaker after a dinner in honor of these students and adminis- LBJ Gets Good Medical Report JOHNSON CITY. Tex.

(AP) President Johnson got an in- good-siiape medical report Sat- jurday following a head-to-toe i examination. I Johnson's convalescence from his Oct. 8 gall bladder-kidney stone surgery is "coming along well," Dr. George G. Burkley reported.

I After talking with Burkley, assistant press secretary Joseph Laitin told newsmen the President's earlier back pains have not entirely disappeared, and there still is some soreness around the incision. "He found nothing other than normal healing," Laitin said. picture. Sometimes he gets a twinge of distress when he turns the wrong way. And he still has some trouble getting up and down.

Dr. Burkley is satisfied the way things are going." Wreckage Found Of Plane Lost Since March 1 ANDERSON, Tex. wreckage of a light plane found in a -wdoded section of north Grimes County Saturday has been identified by the Federal Aviation Agency as one missing since March 1 while on a flight from Oklahoma City to Houston. The plane was found by a Houston deer hunter. Glenn Farmer, on the Gibbs Brothers ranch four miles west of Beciias.

The number on the plane, 10SSC, corresponds to the number on a 4-place Mooney that took off from Expressway Junction Airport in Oklahoma Citv with C. C. "Bud" Foster. 31. as the pilot.

Foster, an Oklahoma City oil- trative and teaching staffs of ma n. was last heard from while the 10 schools, at the Hugo Ma- i the vicinity of Ardmore, sonic Temple. jOkla. NOTICE! We will not knowingly be undersold. We guarantee you.

OFF ANY PRICE QUOTED ELSEWHERE, Deweese Monument Co. 448 Lamar Ave. Paris Dial SU 4-7200 GEORGE JACK SPANN, Plainview, Texas. Services will be Sunday, 3:00 P.M. at the First Baptist Church in Roxton.

Interment: Restland Cemetery, Roxton. first National Bank Helping Build a Greater Paris TWO WAYS TO PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST THE UNEXPECTED Use safety belts in your car open an interest-earning savings account here at our friendly "Full Service" bank! Save here every starring NOW! THE FIRST NftTiONfiL BONK PORIS, TEXfiS MEMBER F.D.I.C..

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