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A4 TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1997 GALVESTON COUNTY, TEXAS Coast Guard rescues two who fell off pleasure boat By GINA V. GOMEZ The Daily News TEXAS CITY A man and a woman were plucked from the water off a pier near the Texas City Dike about 9:15 p.m. Monday after they fell from a pleasure boat. The two were pulled to safety by people on the pier, reported U.S. Coast Guard officials.

No other information was available at press time. Homicide victim GALVESTON Police have identified the victim of the island's second homicide of the year as Darran Anibal Foster, 31 of the 200 block of PostofSce Street. Foster, who had recently moved to the island from Arlington, died at a University of Texas Medical Branch hospital early Saturday of a stab wound to the chest after being found on the sidewalk in the 900 block of Avenue at 2:30 a.m. The case is under investigation, said police. POLICE Search continues GALVESTON The search continued Monday for a man who reportedly drowned off East Beach on Saturday.

Both sides of the island's south jetty, the ship channel and the East End of the island were searched Monday, but nothing was found, said a spokesperson for the Galveston County Sheriffs Beach Patrol. The 23-year-old man from Monterey, Mexico, was presumed drowned after disappearing off East Beach on Saturday night. Vehicle burglary TEXAS CITY Two area men were arrested around 1:30 a.m. Monday for burglary of a motor vehicle and evading arrest in the 900 block of 10th Street South. The two were allegedly found with property stolen earlier the same night from a vehicle in the 1200 block of 10th Street North after running from police.

Pilot's discharge request to be denied 4 Attorney Frank Spinner tells reporters that he has filed for an honorable discharge for First It. Kelly J. Flinn during a news conference at Minot Air Force Base near Minot, N.D., Monday. (AP) The Associated Press WASHINGTON Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall "has no intention" of granting the first female B-52 bomber pilot's request for an honorable discharge in lieu of a court martial on adultery and disobedience charges, Pentagon sources said late Monday. First Lt.

Kelly Flinn's civilian attorney filed the request earlier in the day at Minot Air Force Base, N.D. The secretary has no intentions of granting an honorable discharge," said the senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The 26-year-old pilot, who is single, faces trial on charges of having an affair with a civilian man married to an Air Force enlisted woman. She is also charged with having a brief relationship with an enlisted man. Both affairs, which violate military rules, took place in the past year.

The Air Force has stressed that Flinn's military behavior breaking the rules, disobeying an order to end the affair and lying to investigators is at the heart of the charges, not simply that she slept with a married man. The maximum penalty for lying carries a potential five-year prison sentence; an adultery conviction carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison. The senior Pentagon official said Widnall would make her decision known "in a couple of days." That appears to clear the way for the Flinn's court hearing in Minot to go forward on Tuesday. Flinn's civilian attorney, Frank Spinner, told reporters in Minot earlier Monday that he expected to argue for a delay in the case on Tuesday at a pretrial hearing. He said he made the request for a "resignation in lieu of court martial" hoping that the Air Force would be spared the embarrasment of such a proceeding.

The whole point of Lieutenant Flinn offering this resignation is to avoid court martial," Spinner said. "We want to avoid embarassment to her and the military." He added that he was "optimistic" that a delay in the trial would be granted. FBI: Explosives residue found on McVeigh's pants, shirt The Associated Press DENVER Traces of explosives from a bomb detonator were found on the T-shirts and pants Timothy McVeigh was wearing when he was pulled over 75 minutes after the Oklahoma City bombing, an FBI expert testified Monday. Explosives residue was also found on a pair of ear plugs McVeigh was carrying in his pocket when he was pulled over on a traffic violation after the April 19, 1995, blast, said FBI chemist Steven Burmeister. The scientist also linked the truck McVeigh allegedly rented to the bomb itself, saying that a blown-apart truck shard found near the blast site was embedded with crystals of ammonium nitrate, the main ingredient in the fuel-and fertilizer bomb.

Burmeister, the first witness to provide scientific testimony linking McVeigh to a bomb materials, said that the pants, shirt and ear plugs all contained a fine powder called PETN, which is used in bomb detonator cord. Pointing out that McVeigh scribbles notes in court with his right hand, Burmeister testified the PETN was found in the right pocket of McVeigh's black jeans. Only an unidentifiable trace amount was in the left pocket. The explosive material was also found on both of the T-shirts McVeigh had on: a dark blue baseball-style shirt and, underneath that, a short-sleeved white T-shirt that showed a picture of a tree dripping with blood and the Thomas Jefferson quotation: The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." On the ear plugs, Burmeister found PETN and two other materials: nitroglycerine and a substance called EDGN, a combination he said "suggests a dynamite." A truck bomb went off outside the downtown Oklahoma City federal building at 9:02 a.m., killing 168 people and injuring more than 500. Darran Foster ARLINGTON Mr.

Darran Foster, 30, passed away Saturday at UTMB in Galveston, Texas. Funeral Services are pending at Mainland Funeral Home in La Marque. Joseph E. SpjJfers TEXAS CITY Joseph E. "Joe" Spillers 81, of Texas City passed away on Sunday, May 18, 1997, at Columbia Mainland Center Hospital in Texas City.

Arrangements are pending at the James Crowder Funeral Home, La Marque. Dorothy Agnes Henderson GALVESTON Dorothy Agnes Henderson, 88, of Galveston, Texas passed away at her residence in Galveston, Sunday, May 18, 1997. Services will be pending at Malloy Son Funeral Home in Galveston, Texas. Rev, John Earl Spotts TEXAS CITY Rev, John Earl Spotts, 89, of Texas City, passed away Sunday, May 18, 1997, in Texas City. A graveside service will be held 1 p.m., Wednesday, May 22, at Dickinson City Cemetery with Rev.

John Elliott officiating. Visitation will be from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Tuesday evening at Emken-Linton Funeral Home in Texas City. Rev.

Spotts was born August 1,1907, in Kansas City, Kansas. He pastored churches in Seabrook, Rosenburg and Galveston before he retired. Survivors include daughter, Pearl McGee and husband, Charles of Texas City (Pearl works at Palais Royal in Galveston); grandsons Charles, Mark and Kevin McGee; and five great-grandchildren. Emken-Linton Funeral Home Ellen Belcher Picone GALVESTON Ellen Belcher Picone, 87, died Monday, May 19,1997, at her residence, Edgewater Methodist Retirement Center. Preceded in death by her husband, Julian R.

Picone, and sister, Ruth Hinton, she is survived by a sister, Mary Elizabeth Overton; nieces, Nancy Owens, Shirley Scott, Dorothy Karr, Sandra Law, Wilhemenia Hinton, a cousin, Harriet Haskell, a great niece, Susan Smith and a brother-in-law, Joe Picone. Mrs. Picone was a lifelong member of Central United Methodist Church in Galveston. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, May 21,1997, in the Joseph Levy Memorial Chapel of J.

Levy Bro. Funeral Home with the Rev. Ray Pinard officiating. Interment will be at Galveston Memorial Park, Hitchcock. Visitation will be Tuesday evening from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.

Pallbearers will be her great- nephews, Jeff Owens, Phil Owens Philip Owens Melvin Scott, T.W. Smith and Timothy Smith. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Central United Methodist Church Organ Fund at 3308 Avenue OM, Galveston, Texas 77330. J. Levy Bro.

Funeral Directors Leo F. Childs Leo F. Childs died Saturday, May 17,1997. He takes with him the love of his family and friends and leaves behind a lifetime of many achievements. Born in Bannister, Texas, June 28, 1915, Leo lived in sawmill and oil field towns across the South during his childhood.

He graduated from Center High School in 1935, and entered mechanical engineering studies at Texas in the fall of 1937. Although World War cut short his college experience, Leo later became a registered professional engineer. Leo's professional career as an aeronautical engineer mirrored the evolution of aviation during his lifetime, from open-cockpit aircraft to the space shuttle. His career in aviation started as an aircraft mechanic in the 1930s with States Aircraft Company Galveston Memorial Park and American Airlines. During World War he served as a design engineer with Lockheed Aircraft Company and was responsible for the photo-reconnaissance version of the P-3B aircraft.

After the war he worked for Convair (General Dynamics) on both the B-36 and B-58 aircraft. Leo also designed the Navion Rangemaster, a private aviation aircraft. He served as general manager and vice president of engineering for Navion Range- master, a private aviation aircraft in Galvtiston, Texas, during the late 1950s and early 1960s. At peak of production before Hurricane Carla, the company was producing one airplane a day. Leo joined NASA in its' early years at the Johnson Space Center in early 60s.

He was an engineering contract manager on the Lockheed contract and worked on the Apollo, Skylab, and space shuttle missions. During his 22 years with NASA, he also conceptualized and plemented the aircraft remote sensing program to study the earth. NASA recognized Leo's outstanding public speaking abilities by awarding him then- Distinguished Speaker Award in 1983. Leo also had a love of forestry. For 39 years he has owned and managed a 300 acre commercial timber farm in Cherokee County.

The American Forestry Association honored his outstanding efforts by naming him the Texas Tree Farmer of the Year 1993. Leo is survived by Eleanor E. Childs his wife of 40 years. He is also survived by his children, Laura, Jeff, Quana, Ryan, and Michael and his granddaughters, Brendon Childs and Adela Ludeke. Leo was a member of the following organizations: Quiet Birdmen, American Navion Society, Texas Forestry P-38 Association and Shriner Arabia Temple.

Visitation will be Tuesday, May 20 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Crowder Funeral Home in Dickinson, Texas. Funeral services will be at Bay Area Unitarian Fellowship on El Carnino Real (near the corner of NASA Road 1) 281-488-2001, on Wednesday, May 21st. at 11 a.m.

Interment will be at Galveston Memorial Park, Hitchcock, Texas. The family request in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to Health Equipment Recycling Coalition, 2810 61st. St. No. 130, Galveston, Texas 77551.

James Crowder Funeral Home, Dickinson, Texas T-Bone Tom' Frtzmorris BACLIFF "T-Bone Tom" Fitzmorris, 54 of Bacliff, Texas, passed away Sunday, May 18, 1997, at St. John Hospital in Nassau Bay. Mr. Fitzmorris was born September 1, 1942, hi Covington, Louisiana and owned and operated "T-Bone Tbms" in Kemah, Texas. Tom served in the U.S.

Air Force and was a member of the Bayshore Friends Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, Charlotte and Leonard Fitzmorris. Survivors include his wife, Carol Sue Fitzmorris; daughter, Glena Sue Fitzmorris; son, Timothy David Fitzmorris; step- mother, Pearl Fitzmorris; sister, Jo Ann Grandjean and two brothers, John L. Fitzmorris and Mike Fitzmorris. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, May 21st at 2 p.m.

in the Trinity Tabernacle Assembly of God Church, 1008 East Lobit, Baytown, Texas with Rev. Don Sparks arid Rev. Karl Newmann officiating. Burial will follow services in the Forest Park East Cemetery. The family will receive friends Tuesday evening from 5 to 8 p.m.

at the James Crowder Funeral Home in Webster, Texas. James Crowder Funeral Home, Dickinson, Texas Allen Ray Hooper Jr. OKLAHOMA Allen Ray Hooper 40, of Duncan, Oklahoma, passed away Sunday, May 18,1997, at his residence in Duncan, Oklahoma. Services will be at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 20,1997, at Faith Temple Pentecostal Church of God, the Rev. Wayne Morrow officiating.

Burial will follow at Duncan City Cemetery. Mr. Hooper was a resident of Duncan for the past 15 years. He was born March 7, 1957, in La Marque, Texas. He had worked for Koch Services for 8 years.

He attended Temple, Oklahoma Schools and was raised in the Temple Community where he worked the family farm with his father. He was a member of the Temple Pentecostal Church of God. Survivors are his wife, Lynn Denning Hooper; son, Chet Hooper and daughter, Courtney Hooper, all of Duncan; his mother, Dorothy (Esders) Located off FM 519 on Memorial Drive in Hitchcock (409) 986-7409 Do you have a Will? Do you need a Will? PROTECTYOUR FAMILY ASSETS! Probate Power of Attorney Living Wills -Trusts Divorce Child Support Name Changes Adoption Paternity ennifer M. Smith ATTORNEY AT LAW 607 6th Street 77590 Not Board Ccnifif By The Tens Board of Legal Certification Hooper, Temple, Oklahoma; father, Allen Ray Hooper Sr. and his dear friend, Ruth Ann of Wichita Falls, Texas; father-in-law, CA.

Denning Jr. of Ryan, Oklahoma; sister and brother-in-law, Margaret and Ronnie Shegog of Lawton; sisters-in-law, Charlotte Knutson of Waurtka and Nancy Roairk, Ryan, Oklahoma; nieces, Stephanie Parrish and Whitney Roark; nephews, Jody and Todd Overstreet and Tate Roark; 2 great-nephews and many, many friends. Pallbearers are Ashley Nist, Clendon Harvey, Dean Hawkins, Sonny Bumpass, Raymond Morrow, and David Morrow. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society or Cleo Cragl Memorial Cancer Research Clinic, 5002 W. Lee Blvd.

Lawton, Oklahoma 73705. Don Grantham Funeral Home, Inc, 405-255-6666 Services Wyrwich Services for Joyce Wyrwich will be today at 10 a.m. at Queen of Angels Catholic Church. Burial woll follow at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Dickinson, under the direction of Emken- Linton Funeral Home.

Wilcox Funeral service for Albert L. Wilcox Sr. will be today at 12:00 p.m. at Greater Mount Calvary Baptist Church. Interment will follow at Grace Memorial park, Alta Loma, Texas under the direction of Fields Funeral Home, Inc.

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