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4-A (Salutaton Baila Tuesday Morning, June 14,1983 Charlotte Collins GALVESTON Services (or Charlotte Vivian Collins, 72, a retired secretary- receptionist, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at J. Levy Bro. Funeral Home in Galveston, the Rev. Jeff Scheeler officiating.

Burial will be at Old Catholic Cemetery in Galveston. Mrs. Collins died Sunday in Texas City. She was born Sept. 25, 1910, in Galveston.

A lifelong isle resident, Mrs. Collins was a retired employee of KHOU-TV and was of the Catholic faith. Survivors include a son, Henry K. Nolle Jr. of Texas sister, Clare Tinney Hasselmeier of Galveston; three grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and other relatives.

Pallbearers will be Dwaine Nolle, Chris Nolte, Greg Nolte, David Henry Alphonse Daly and Richard Plummer. Honorary pallbearers will be C.D. Daly, Nelson Bryd, Meredith Tinney, David Henry Sr. and Frederick Raynerlll. Visitors may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m.

today. Francis Williamson GALVESTON Services for Francis M. "Frank" Williamson, 80, a retired Amoco operator, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at J. Levy Bro.

Funeral Home in Galveston, Dr. Asbury Lenox officiating. Burial will be at Galveston Memorial Park in Hitchcock. Mr. Williamson died Sunday at his residence.

He was born Oct. 22,1902, in Call, Texas. A member of Moody Memorial First United Methodist Church, Mr. Williamson retired from American Oil Co. as a chief operator.

Survivors include his wife, Mabel Holman Williamson of Galveston; a son, Edward Holman Williamson of Elizabeth, N. and three sisters, Mrs. Cruce Stark of Houston, Mrs. Fletcher Weaver of Austin and Evelyn Singletary of San Antonio. Pallbearers will be Joe Nussenblatt, Morris Framer, Edward Murphy, Dr.

Cruce Stark, Tom McAllister and Joseph 'Berbet. Honorary' pallbearers will be Herbert Hendrickson, Gilum Linscomb, Dr. Ruth Baxter, John Townsend, Mansly Poth, Allwyn Koehler and David Adler. Visitors may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today.

Memorials may be sent to Galveston Hospice Group. Emmer Welch HENDERSON Services for Emmer Welch, 70, a former Texas City resident, were held Monday at Bryan Funeral Home in Henderson. Mrs. Welch died Friday at her residence. ShewasbornOct.il, 1912, in Rusk County, Texas.

She was a member of the Canton Military Branch of the International Order of Odd Fellows and Henderson Rebekah Lodge 159. Survivors include her husband, H.J. Welch of Henderson; a daughter, Mary Jane Steinbach of Texas City; and two sons, David Earl Welch and Durward Welch, both of Texas City. StewartMcVaySr. B1LOXI, Miss.

Services for Stewart Roy McVay 73, a retired commercial fisherman, will be at 11:30 a.m. today at Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home in Biloxi, the Rev. John O'Riley officiating. Burial will be at Biloxi A rosary was recited Monday evening at the funeral home. Mr.

McVay died Sunday at Biloxi Regional Medical Center in Biloxi. He was born July 11,1909, in Biioxi, and was a lifelong Biloxi resident. Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth Ewing McVay of Biloxi; six daughters, Irma Seymour of Gulfport, Marie Strong of Bay St. Louis, Shirley Comeaux of Crystal Beach, Betty Jean Cook of Biloxi and Rita Hubbard and Mary Russell, both of Texas City; a son, Earl Edward McVay of Crystal Beach; 42 grandchildren; and 42 great-grandchildren. ED.

Howard BROWNWOOD H.D. "Curly" Howard, 68, a retired engineer, died Monday at Santa Fe Hospital in Temple. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. today at First Baptist Church in Brownwood, Drs. Guy Newman and Don Williford officiating.

Burial will be at Eastlawn Memorial Park in Brownwood, under direction of Davis-Morris Funeral Home of Brownwood. Mr. Howard was born May 12, 1915, in Valley Mills, Texas. He retired from Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad after 32 years of service, and was a 42-year Brownwood resident. Survivors wife, Ruth Brownwood; Sue Howard Brownwood; include his Howard of a daughter, McCurry of a son, Don Howard of Brownwood; a sister, Mrs.

Gene Hordon of Texas City; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Donald Milner LEAGUE CITY Donald Milner, 76, a superintendent for DuPont, died Monday at his residence. Services will be at 1 p.m. today at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Dickinson, under direction of Jack Rowe Funeral Home of League City. Mr.

Milner was born Aug. 8, 190S, in Stockbridge, and had lived in League City for four years. Survivors include a son, Wayne Milner of League City; a sister, Doris Harrison of Saline, and two grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Bert Worley, Standley Harrison, Robert Schreiber, Lewis Self and Roy Carpenter. Tommy MOB Jr.

HOUSTON Services for Tommy Scott Moss infant son of Scott and Margaret Ann Moss, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Jack Rowe Funeral Home in League City. Burial will be at South Memorial Park Cemetery in Pearland. The infant died Sunday. He was born April 16, 1983, in Pasadena.

In addition to his parents, survivors include his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R.H. McBride of League City and Mr. and Mrs.

LaVelle Moss of Pasadena; his great-grandparents, Pauline Farrow and Janle Hubbs, both of Palestine, Texas; and other relalives. Visitors may call at the funeral home after noon today. Actress Norma Shearer dies LOS ANGELES (AP) Actress Norm a Shearer, an Oscar-winning leading lady of the Golden Age of Hollywood who married one of filmdom's brightest moguls, is dead at age 80, a hospital spokesman said Monday. The Canadian-born star, whose career peaked in the 20s and 30s, died Sunday afternoon at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in suburban Woodland Hills, where she had lived since September 1980 under care for impaired vision and other illnesses, hospital spokesman Walter Seltzer said. The cause of death was brpnchopneumonia, Seltzer said.

The brown-haired, gray-eyed actress won an Academy Award for her performance in the 1929 film "The Divorcee." She was nominated as best actress for her roles in "Their Own Desire," 1929; "A Free Soul," 1930; "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," 1934; "Romeo and Juliet," 1936, and "Marie Antoinette," 1938. She also scored screen triumphs in 1939's "Idiot's Delight," opposite Clark Gable, "Strange Interlude," "Smilin' Through," "Tower of Lies," "Strangers May- Kiss," "A Lady of Chance," "The Stealers" and "The Women." Married to Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer film production genius Irving Thalberg in 1927, Miss Shearer was widowed in 1936 when he died unexpectedly at age 37, shortly after producing "Romeo and Juliet" and "The Good Earth." "She came out of that great era, during that era when there were really big, big stars and she was one of them," said Fay Kanin, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts Sciences. "She had a very good range," Ms. Kanin said. "She did dramatic things and comedy very enchant- ingly, and she even did a 'Romeo and Juliet' for which there was a little controversy." The controversy was because Miss Shearer was in her mid-30s when she played the teen-aged Juliet, "but I think she filled that role admirably," Ms.

Kanin said. Miss Shearer married her second husband, French ski instructor Martin Arrouge, in 1942 the year she made her last film, "Her ardboard Lover." A wealthy woman from her own career and Thalberg's estate, Miss Shearer said a few years later that she never considered herself retired. "I merely decided I wanted to devote my time to other interests, since I had spent a good many years in the movie business," she said. She and her second husband, who was eight years younger, traveled extensively. Actress Irene Dunne, who dined fre- quently with the couple in Paris during the 1950s, recalled the union as a happy one.

"She was a very beautiful woman and, my goodness, she was lucky to have this husband," Miss Dunne said. "I've never known such devotion." "She was very nice, and I imagine professionally she was a very considerate, caring person. I never heard that she had any of these temperamental tantrums that you hear about with some players." Born Edith Norma Shearer in August 1902 in the Montreal suburb of Westmount, she left school at age 14 to embark on a stage career. To finance a 1920 trip to New York City, the family piano was sold. Miss Shearer later played piano in motion picture theaters while she and her sister, Athole, took-minor parts on Broadway.

She is survived by their two children, Irving Jr. and Katherine. James Hall HOUSTON Services for James Arthur "Shorty" Hall, 45, a merchant marine, will be at ll a.m. Wednesday at Lundy Funeral Home in Galveston, the Rev. Kenneth Hall officiating.

Burial will be at Lakeview Cemetery in Galveston, under direction of Kashmere Gardens Funeral Home of Houston. A wake will be held from 5-9 p.m. today at Kashmere Gardens Funeral Home. Mr. Hall died Friday at Eastway General Hospital in Houston.

He was born April 14,1937, in Planterville, Texas. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, Mr. Hall was a former member of the Live Oak Baptist Church of Galveston. He graduated from Galveston's Central High School in 1955.

Survivors include his wife, Mattie Hall of Houston; his mother, Annie Brown of Galveston; his father, Robert Hall of Galveston; his stepfather, Samuel Brown of Galveston: five sons, Dwain Hall, the Rev. Kenneth Hall, Dexter Hall, Rondey Ranch and Ocie Stubblefield; a daughter, Jackie Hall; a brother, Otis Charles Brown of Grand Prairie; and two grandsons. and friends of will serve as Members the family pallbearers. Visitors may call at Lundy Funeral Home after 10 a.m. Wednesday.

Mayor says Andropov voices interest in Kansas summit WASHINGTON (AP) The mayor of Lawrence, said Monday that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov "agrees in principle" that the mayor's proposal for a Soviet-American summit meeting in that city in America's heartland would be a good idea. Mayor David Longhurst said in a telephone interview that he learned of Andropov's response in a call Monday from a Soviet Embassy official in Washington. But Longhurst as well as an embassy spokesman who was interviewed later by The Associated Press said Andropov added the condition that any summit meeting with President Reagan must be well prepared and assured of producing serious results. The White House press secretary's office was questioned but had no immediate response to the invitation, which Longhurst extended to Reagan and Andropov sometime in April, to meet in Lawrence. The mayor said Monday he had not heard from the White House.

An administration official, who spoke only on the condition that he not be identified, said, "As far as the site of a summit is concerned, it first has to be decided it was a constructive and appropriate time to have a summit, then consideration will be given where to hold it." In his last comment on the possibility of a summit, Reagan said May 27 that a mere get-acquainted meeting with Andropov "makes no sense," but that he would be happy to go to the summit if solid groundwork were laid and there were good prospects for results. Longhurst said the Soviet Embassy official, identified as minister counselor Vicktor Isakov, called him and "said that Andropov expressed his gratitude for the invitation to a meeting for peace between himself and Reagan. "He said that it's Andropov's feeling that such a meeting would benefit not only the people of the United States and the Soviet Union but the people of the entire world," the mayor said. He quoted Isakov as saying that Andropov "agrees in principle that it would be T-bill yields higher WASHINGTON (AP) Yields on short-term Treasury securities rose in Monday's auctions to the highest levels since last year, officials said. The government sold about S6.2 billion in new three-month T-bills at an average discount rate of 8.73 percent, up from the 8.64 percent of last week.

In addition, about S6.2 billion in six-month bills were sold at an average rate of 8.83 percent, up from 8.79 percent. The yields were the highest since the Aug. 9, 1982, level of 10.025 percent for three-month bills and the Oct. 4 level of 9.229 percent for six-month bills. The new discount rates understate the actual return to investors 9.08 percent for three-month bills and 9.4 percent for six-month bills.

Beginning Tuesday, in private accounts linked to the T-bDl rates: and loan associations and commercial banks may pay as much as 9.08 percent interest on six-month money market certificates compared with the 9.04 percent of the past week. and may pay as much as 8.73 percent on three-month certificates, up from last week's 8.65 percent. In rates that don't change this week, may pay as much as 9.8 percent and commercial banks as much as 9.55 percent on certificates. A minimum deposit of $2,500 is required for the three- and six-month certificates. There is no government-required minimum for the longer- term certificates.

a good idea and be very beneficial." However, Longhurst quoted Isakov as adding: "Andropov said that such a meeting as we suggest would raise expectations to a very high level. And that because of those expectations, it is imperative that such a meeting be prepared for very thoroughly, and it's very important such a meeting produce results." Michael Lyfemko, an embassy press official, confirmed Isakov's call and, reading from a written statement, told the AP: "The Soviet leadership always considers high-level contacts and summit meeting as one of the most effective methods of developing relations between the countries. At the same time, Soviet-American summit meetings, first of all, must be well prepared and produce serious political results in order to meet the hopes and expectations that the peoples of our countries will have for it." Rep. Bob Whittaker, R- sent letters to Reagan and Andropov on Monday urging that they agree to meet at Lawrence, home of the University of Kansas. Whittaker said the mayor, backed by the Lawrence city council, had extended the invitation "with the hope that such a personal visit would be a predicate to peaceful and productive negotiations for world peace." TODAY Sarah Frances McGlaun, 72, of Tyler, a former Galveston resident, died Friday; services 10 a.m.

today at J. Levy Bro. Funeral Home in Galveston; burial at Grace Memorial Park in Alta Lorn a. Registration register starts sentence ROANOKE, Va. Enten Eller, the first person convicted of falling to register for the new standby draft, started serving his two-year sentence Monday as a worker in a food bank.

"I still think what 1 did was right," Eller said, adding he was "excited The 21-year-old pacifist, a California native, will stay with a local family while working full-time for the Total Action Against Poverty program. He said he hopes to attend a Church of the Brethren seminary in Oak Brook, LI. when he finishes and work toward a master's degree in divinity. Registration requirements were revived under the administration of President Jimmy Carter in hopes that a draft could be instituted more quickly if it were necessary. Eller said registering for the draft would violate his pacifist views, which were nourished in the Church of the Brethren.

District Court Judge James Turk ordered Eller to register. EJJer refused and Turk sentenced him to work two years without pay at the Veterans Administration hospital in nearby Salem. But protests from veterans groups and the threat of a legal challenge from the VA caused Turk to cancelthe order and look elsewhere. The judge selected the regional food bank in Roanoke from a list of several alternative work sites. Wilson: NAACP will survive dispute ST.

LOUIS NAACP Chairman Margaret Bush Wilson, stripped of her powers by the association's directors, says the organization will survive her bitter dispute with Executive Director Benjamin L. Hooks. "In the long run, it's not going to hurt the organization," Mrs. Wilson told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch in an interview published in Monday's editions.

"The NAACP is bigger than Margaret Wilson, Ben Hooks and all the rest. We've weathered crises much more serious than that." The 64-member national board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People voted 49-5 in Chicago on Saturday to remove Mrs. Wilson's power to hire, fire and authorize expenditures. It called her suspension of Executive Director Benjamin Hooks "sour grapes." The board transferred all her powers to Vice Chairman Kelly Alexander Sr. That action was taken after Mrs.

Wilson read a 33-page report accusing Hooks of poor management, placing his personal speaking engagements ahead of the organization's business and "bizarre" behavior at a recent executive committee meeting. Mrs. Wilson told the newspaper she thought her fate had been determined before Saturday's meeting began. The chairman said she had not decided whether to comply with a board request that she resign before the NAACP's 74th annual convention July 11 in New Orleans. Peruvian leftists slay 14 peasants AYACUCHO, Peru Leftist guerrillas led by a woman invaded a village in southern Peru and killed 14 peasants they accused of collaborating with the government, police said Monday.

The guerrillas killed a justice of the peace and a shopkeeper in another town and blew up two passenger cars in attacks Sunday, police said. In the historic city of Cuzco, guerrillas dynamited three power pylons and fired submachine guns, blacking out the city for 95 minutes and causing tourists to run for cover, police said. The attack knocked out service from the hydroelectric center of Machu Picchu, the town of the famous Inca ruins northeast of Cuzco, but no injuries were reported. It was the first strike by the "Shining Path" guerrillas in Cuzco in more than a year and came during the 60-day national emergency President Fernando Belaunde Terry declared two weeks ago to fight terrorism. Police said the guerrillas struck while helicopters and other patrols were drawn off to Ayacucho to protect the president, who was visiting the region to declare his support for the armed forces.

A group of 20 to 25 guerrillas killed the peasants in the village of Ocros 55 miles southeast of Ayacucho, police said. Another guerrilla band killed the justice of the peace and the shop owner after putting them on public trial and condemning them to death on the spot. Dissident denied treatment, says wife MOSCOW The wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov said Monday doctors from the Soviet Academy of Sciences have examined her husband and recommended he be hospitalized for "treatment of heart disease and urological disease." But Yelena Bonner, in a statement issued to Western reporters, said the Nobel Peace Prize winner still has not received permission to leave his internal exile in the city of Gorky and travel to Moscow for treatment. Mrs. Bonner said the couple does not want Sakharov hospitalized in Gorky, which is closed to foreigners.

She said she fears he would be allowed to die in the city 250 miles east of Moscow. "A month has passed without hospitalization, without treatment, a month which is bringing both of us near a quick and tragic end," Mrs. Bonner said, referring to her May appeal to have her husband hospitalized in Moscow. Sakharov, 62, has suffered two slight heart attacks and also has urological problems, his wife said. The 59-year-old Mrs.

Bonner says she suffered a slight heart attack on April 25, and that she also has been told that she should be hospitalized. The couple has requested that they be hospitalized together, in Moscow. Sakharov, who has been active in human rights causes, was grabbed on a Moscow street and flown to exile in Gorky on Jan. 22,1980. D.

Wayne Bjerke TEXAS CITY Services for D. Wayne Johnson Bjerke, 6, will be at 2 p.m. today at Galveston Memorial Park in Hitchcock, the Rev. Leo Smith officiating. Arrangements are under direction of James Crowder Funeral Home of La Marque.

The child died Sunday at John Sealy Hospital in Galveston. He was born April 15,1977, in Galveston. Survivors include his mother, Navaleen Bjerke of Texas City; his father, James Dennis Bjerke of Texas City; his grandmother, Betty Burch of Waco; a sister, La Donna Johnson of Texas City; three brothers, Jason Johnson, John Bjerke and Dennis Bjerke, all of Texas City; numerous aunts and uncles; and other relatives. Pallbearers will be Allen Bjerke, William Bjerke, Donald Bjerke and Tommy Bjerke. Honorary pallbearers will be Rick Bjerke, Danny Bjerke, David Pride and Pat Nelly.

Visitors may call at the funeral home after 8 a.m. today. Secretary Shultz plans visit to Asia WASHINGTON Secretary of State George P. Shultz will visit the Philippines, Thailand, India and Pakistan on a trip beginning June 24, the State Department announced Monday. The Philippines and Thailand are among the closest U.S.

friends in Asia and are members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, which has quietly promoted a withdrawal of Vietnam forces from Cambodia. India, the world's second-largest nation, heads the nonaligned movement, while Pakistan is playing a behind-the-scenes role in seeking a Soviet military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Shultz will be in the Philippines from June 24-26; Thailand, June India, June 29-July and Pakistan, July 2-4. In Bangkok, he will attend a meeting of foreign minsters after the ASEAN annual conference and confer with Thai officials. Thailand, a haven for Indochinese refugees, has been caught hi border conflict between Vietnamese forces backing the Cambodian government and rebels.

U.S. officials have accused the Vietnamese of firing on defenseless women and children. The Philippines, meanwhile, recently reached an agreement with the United States governing American access to military bases. Pakistan has improved relations with the United States largely through the lifting of the freeze that the Carter administration had imposed on most weapons. National debt estimates vary widely WASHINGTON A congressional study says the government should sharpen up its measurement of the national debt, which is now estimated at anywhere from less than $1.2 trillion to more than $7 trillion, depending upon how you figure.

"Once we know what we owe, we can make better decisions about how to deal with these debts before a crisis ensues," Bruce Bartlett, executive director of the Joint Economic Committee, said Monday. The statutory debt, the amount the government has borrowed to cover the difference between what it receives and what it spends, is $1.2 trillion. However, Bartlett said, this figure is exaggerated because it includes money the government borrows by selHngTwnds to government agencies such as the Federal Reserve System and the Social Security Trust Fund. "In short, we could wipe out over 30 percent of the federal debt overnight simply by canceling bonds already owned by government agencies," the report said. "This would have no economic effect and might make people feel that the debt is less of a burden than they thought it was." On the other hand, if you include government loans, loan guarantees, and contingent liabilities under insurance and annuity programs, the figure mounts to more than $7 trillion, Bartlett said.

However, the annunities eventually will have to be paid and much of the insurance will not, he noted..