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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal from Lubbock, Texas • Page 23

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Wreck Fatal To 10 Tops Tragic Toll SAN in 1 ll (-til uTt look 10 lives lui'nod Good tragedy in Texas as at 'least 18 Friday into a day i persons were killed. WORLD; News About Area Men In Service recent i "Jill visitor in (he home of cuts, Mr. and Mrs. KHon Howard, .1001 4(5th on his wav to Vietnam for the third time. An aviation electrician '2 in the Navy, Griffin was recognized as the "Ghostrider of lhe Year 1 in All personnel in his fighter squadron 1-12 are known as Ghostriders.

The Two Bnpiist ministers and sev-i en members of their families perished in the collision of a ear and a station wajjou. Five Students Killed children in lhe sma.sbup. Two North Texas State Uni-J versity students were people killed in a two-ear! collision al Texas City, and car tnirk crash on Padre Is-' land killed two men. Three other accidents claimed' Ihroe additional lives. Tho San Antonio wreck- hap-! in the south part of the! city about 12:15 a.m.

The two' families, people in all, were, traveling to Springs in I a stali'in wason afler bavin attended a church services. OttiPr Driver Killed the collision, four of them crit- icallv. the daughter of Mr Cecil Purycar' FrMav' TU Jr nd spKal WaiTOr gs for the church have and Mrs. Police and hos listed these dead: 1. Genevo Villarrcal, 'JS, San Antonio, driver of the car.

The Rev. Juan Pedro do la Pnt iiUwrin slo for the ceremonv. Saturday Hard 25, Garrell Dies; Riles Set UN PIAO MOVES UP KLOYDADA (Special)--S'en'-! ices for James Clinton Garrctt, 75, will lie at 3 p.m. today at City Park Church of Christ. Garrctt died at 10:15 p.m.

Thursday at West Texas Hospital in Lubtwek. Ho was in failing health the last several months, in a sense Carroll was symbolical of a passing era. Ho was a retired windmill and water mill repairman one of a few left in the trade. During his Reds Claim Mao But Opposition My -JOHN KODKK1CK TOKYO (AP) Revolutionary workers in Peking say Mao Tse-tung has triumphed in founded by Chairman Mao'iit is led by Deputy Supreme Com. ma ruler Lin Piao." That Lin has boon moved Red China that his enemies fan important notch in the Com- arc still alive," frenx.iedly fighting back, and will take a font; time to stamp out.

At the same time, Premier munist Peking order was revealed Ijy a resolulion adopted by the 30,000 workers at their Wednesday meeting. active life he also worked as a lme tlme Wednesday meeting. cowhand on ranches from 1Wclt ain i For Ule first time lt offjc aI5 to Amariilo om Hefcase Minister Lin Piao described the 59-year-old mar- Ifo fnllmv-Prt tim actlwl 3i afis shal as Mao's "closest comrade- windmill re- pair trade until about live years from Spur in 1011. man liberation army as its yilepuly supreme commander." commander Officiating will he George Kl-! um ins, minister. Burial will be! Tin in-arrns." The phrase which had been used until now has been "close comrade-in-arms." is leader in name! It also was the first Lin has HITS AT VIETNAM WAR kin in Floydada Cemetery.

Moore- people's libr-ralion army Rose Hmcral Home in He was married lo Reese Roberts in Portales, N. July 13, 1927. Survivors include his wife; a step-son, Wade L. Roberts of Laurel, three daughters, Mrs. Dixie Pullen of Midland, Mrs.

Lorine of Odessa and Mrs. Car loo Pierce, 2919 K. Colgate, Lubbock; 14 grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs. Jake Murphree of Las Vegas. N.M., and Mrs.

Forrest Martin HOLY WKKK (SATURDAY, "So they went and the sepulchre sure." Mail. This Saturday was bound to be One of After the ship sails, (be Jimenez, Griffin went the Pacific the' Peter de la Crux, a son Urst time aboard lh USS Con-i 5. Sammy la a stellation anri was involved in: lhe Gulf of Tonkin incident lie' Kmest de la Crux, 11, a son "'ill return to' the Pacific aboard 7 The Rev. Pablo Jimenez I the Constellation. X), Springs.

King Slates More Chicago Demonstrations This Year Services Mark Activities Many Lubbock churches con-' undergo intensive for approximately four before joining the fleet in the battle zone. Griffin entered the Naw 3360 after from Quanah Hk-b School Pabl 12, a Others Critical Critically hurt were Alex de Ja Cruz, 10, Amelia de la Cruz, 16, in and Ernestiono de la Cruz, uncertainty Apostles hirl in deep seclusion Christ's followers in great confusion Were scattered like a flock without Us shepherd and the Marys doubt That U' OIIVM iu in --it. his brScr" IS, Hc they prepare Horace Griffin a faculty member at Midland Lee High School, came to Lubbock for the reunion. Before leavin" for San Diego, in Quanah. Cruz; and Yolanda Jimenez, daughter of Jimenez.

In fair condition were Richard iselore leaving de la Cruz, 11, and Becky de la Onffm visited Cruz, 7, children of dc la Cruz. lO'i'i i'. son and Mrs. Olen M. Plains, was promoted to Army! private pay grade E-2 upon 1 completion of basic combat 1 training at Ft.

Bliss. His pro-' motion came two months earlier! "It's a miracle that any lived said attendants at hospital of the To visit ne.xt day that place where Within the garden-tomb He lay This as earth's most despondent day. C. HYER ducted special Good Friday ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) (suited he siid rr services, communions, revival's Martin Luther King who led 1 white 'backlash Mm! nd youlh FYiriay ns tho a violence-wrecked open men! over the war in" obs vrinco of I'-nmer.

housmg drive last year in Chi- are setting up rai)ldl lnl ils f'nal phins more more turmoil, he said dons there in a major push 1 much has changed Uc of a Ul! cc Ivpseopal' for economic improvement of. King said. "I'm afraid we're hlil chps ln tho clt Joined to-; Xegroes in the slums. -going lo get a repetition of hst lcr rlda to conduct a spc-j "The basic problem now Riots in slumsi V1C from noon -i that of economic deprivation of.C''i'!>l«! from Florida to cc was the Negro of the ghettos of! ka last year. 8 our nation," King said in an in-! Ki aicl felt forced into a Clly Mpthof is as he disclosed plans' stron tir st; against in- fltl special services KICItAKD The students killed at Texas i CHASED FAMILY H.

D. slandins: trainees. Pvt Kd- Pfll knr were in wards is a gradual of car cn routc to Galveston to snenH tho NEW DATE SET Snyder Tax Case Called spend the Easter holidays. Killeil On Island Alius AFB Cheeks Report Of UFO Si for a two-pronged effort of slumh' oh cmc nt in Vietnam. The war organizing and job improve-! he saicl plays havoc with rrents for Negroes with national 'domestic programs.

"It has di- firms. I verted attention from the civil Kin said also he wiil assume! ShtS le saicl JHK- Vietnam 1 iTdcSlxS BEGAN WORK 1964 iihf war as the major obstacle to- jthc civil rights i He said tho 1967 of the Southern Leadership! Conference, which ho for: An intensive campaign of or- and Catholic Churches conduct-! Here For Victim Of Auto Mishap i ed special masses on the anni-! Services arc ponding at San- wasi A Friday account of the meeting broadcast by Peking radio in Chinese referred to Lin as "depuiy lender." The "deputy commander" phrase 'appeared in a fuller English- language version destribuled by the New China News Agency Saturday. The conference resolulion, said, "pointed out that by now it was clear that the proletarian revolutionary line represented by Chairman Mao had triumphed while the bourgeois reactionary line had met with disastrous defeat. "However, the criticism and repudiation of the bourgeois reactionary line and the eradication of its poisonous influence I remained an arduous long-term jtask." Sludeiils Killed In South Texas TCX. CUPD' j- -Two University of Texas stu- jdenls were killed Friday when 111 Of their cars crashed head on ab'Hit one mile from (he southern lip of Padre Island.

The dead were identified as Charles Martin Causey, 22 of Hialeah) Houston, and Ralph William Rager 20, of (4405 Beverly) Dallas. throughout Lub-' nr(l Lynn Christian, who was bock conducted special scrv killed in a two-car accident in about noon Thursday-. Robert Charles Knox, 22, of (931 Gardenia) Houston, was in 11 the! The body is rri jtirst foursquare Gospel Church Lubhock 0 Of a froni And today the city's 'have slated special Easter jil's for the eve of Christ's resur-' lhn 'fair condition. Claude Albritton, 1 tlo amvc JS of 35 University Blvd.) Dal1as a Southcrn Needles. University student, was in crit- Ncgrnns in the slums' a basa of power in or-1 Unfinished Sub From Shipyard WASHINGTON (AP) The rcction.

I Knr a passenger in son of Mr. and i Causey's car, and ASbritton was Si lion since 196-1. 1 Tex. r.f-sses iui i A car and a pickup truck A special team of investigators Negroes a slammed together a half 1 rrnm Allus AFB nt'terned after suc-'TuI efforts in York east of the loll bridge on okla look into re-' Atlanta and Chi SS-. a Vto Ir ce ier ServicesPcnd j-iiigammg wnri major busi- which has been under construe-! J.

B. was returning lo Calk jfornia lo begin work after vis- jiting his jiareiH.s hcte. His mother nndenvent spinal surgery Monday in a Luhbock The eider Christian with Rager. ABERKATHY (Special) -Tra'assistant mann" Mrs. Wilson's- Rites Sunday MATADOR (Special- Funeral ifor Mrs.

King said. July. for completion last had lived in the AberJl" 1 last n'ecem-: Burial will be in Roaring nathv area since 1D-12 moving Arkansas. He was a A mistrial was declared District Court here Friday in the (rial of a Snyder rancher! who was indicted on two counts alleging failure to disclose all income Jrom cattle sales Xow about 70 per cent fin- i car and a truck collided! to check "err needing fees for the tax pc-; Pedro Sanchez, 7fi, killed af-' map nirecti noticed the the evils a 1961 and 19W. tor nc was slnlck by a hu approaching object made no schools si A jury in federal court dclib-j and-run driver.

noise. crated nearly eight hours before! Only twice in the past have as 1 Hn finding Leroy Spires Jr. innocentlmany as 10 persons died in a around the housing and situation," King said. nn the i This might involve Negro pupils marching around xvhite schools, A object which had hcs aicl Strategy will be worked "Whether this first count, then riead-jTexas car wreck. That manyl 11 11 pursued them for a Oiicago meeting in car-; gal default of the contract re-! Ariz less than it should have' receiving $26 1963.

is constitutes lc- ycars in lhe Air Springs Cemetery under direc- basic trnininq lion of Seigler Funeral Home in San a l. Travis; Mrs. Wilson, a 50-year resi- from which of Roaring Springs, duty in Guam i her home there Friday. Survivors include two sons, W. member of St.

Luke's'J. of Arlington and of I Matador; four daughters, Mrs- Uilifornia police said ihe'Berba Faulkner of Roarins of Ross should have" while tlve daughters, Mi-s. police said Ihe'Berba Faulkner of Re 126 million under a cr Ht- Lubbock: 3U UTCck vvns caused by a Miss Benno Wils contract awarded in- Eulus NOITIS, Rt. 2, drivcr cd Hie scene. Roaring Springs.

Mrs. Carl Roberts, Shallowater-j Tvvo otflcr persons were killed! Woods of Amarilfo and Mrs Mrs. Doyle Newsome. nntl a tlliri injured in the acci-I- Wilcox.j""" a llllm ln the Roberts of Floydada; one V.V...Hov.1. ju-.

Mrs. Jcne Hale osiKldent. about (i7 miles west of brother, Walter Snow of fnrt locked on the second count in perished Sept. 2. ins.1, near Day- hut luriied off as the car! ly Iay 'mains to be resolved." the NavviAve.

K. i Calif, on U. F.fi Worth- Erandchilrlren 6 nci tm Ctl1 tausin and on Feb 35, 1959, near np; a farm house. i a ldins saW in response to questions. Other survivors are ono broth-! Tllc Lubbock man was tientr great-grandchildren ancl sXat- U.

-M. Taylor Jr. of Dallas to Hidalgo. Their. nvc been several rn oem was "a marvel-- The Navy said completion of or.

Vollen Teeter, Sauilpa scene. Witnessed ports of unidentified flving aKlCem nt apc Bm thc -S)--foot Sturgeon-class sub-: two sisters. Al- 1 Invpsl -'5ators a i Christian Grandsons will be nailbearprs New Trial Srt enllision of two buses Joels in the area over'the past Concrete progress tws re-, marine is "urgently Wirth. Abemalhy and' wns "'''st u-hen he uW nn Al 'S- 1052 claimed Severn! weeks. J.

1 faid the builder could be Mary Chojite. Liftio Rock to the side of the roatl by an declare a mistrial. New Trial Officials said a new trial dat would be set While jurors were deliberating a tnlclc 1 31 0 accident near Ala- traveling fr mi Maine three defendants were 1 0 in 10 1he Texas 28 lives, and 20 persons died in Tbf Ferguson familv ns Mrs. Willie Folsom's 1 1 additional costs re-j 2S granrlcbildren and -quired to wind up construction. one in othei-s cases.

Sentenced nt Robert Maque Leahy, '22, Gainesville, two years in prison for violation of the Dyer Act. Donald B. li 35, Safety said. Naw Wave Be Funeral Set Sunday i services' Funeral Today E. Lam's h-nind vehicl "£,, nr ng to The brakes a 1 JuMns! Dies; Rites Set on count three of a three-count veering over into my." hon Navy Wave Rita the station wagon Wi1 'ransfeiTcti lo the reserve and knew ft ai ing center here.

Parsons; llarl language problem i.s thi ant! at each of two counts of a four- c.otint indictment for receiving nnd concealing narcotic drugs. Sentences are to run concur- solved the problem bv 10 spenrl tne Easter vacation Rita a little bell the Jimenez home at Carrizo'tinkles as she moves Mrs. 12, will be in a.m. today in Rurial will be in Rails Ccnie-- Methodist Church. ils Tom Brown, Itasca, will offi-jbwk since moving "'H 1 i rro Okla.

Ift. to Runai will be in Resthaven employed in the landscanin- in was Mcmorial Park under direction business ar ns a uicnl! 7 dead in her home Thurs- of Reslhaven Funeral Home. the Baptist Gnirr-h day. She was an apparent vie-! Mrs. Hicks, who died at Suivivors include his wlfn tim of a heart attack.

i p.m. Thursday in utlf? Mi-s. Ray, 77. died Fri- at her home. She Rails Ella; three sons.

Albert' Lock- Riles Sunday Springs. on best bcha rontly. Two other counts were, dismissed. Mortimer Charles Benrian, 2S15 tried in federal court here last week and found guilty in an eight-count indictment alleging mail fraud fromj 19R2 to 3964, was nt cd Thursday. Assl.

U.S. Atty. Bob Travis said Herman was sentenced to! four years imprisonment and! 51.000 fine. He was charged with! sending false financial stale-; ments to suppliers while doing business as West Texas Supply Warehouse Distributors of Lubbock and Kooters Discount Cen- icr in Palesline Man Named To Nechcs Authority AUSTIN lAP) Gov. John Connally appointed Wright Matthews of Palestine Friday tn lhe Upper Nechcs River Municipal Water Authority.

Matthews, a lawyer, was appointed to fili Hie term of A. L. moved from Palestine. The term runs unlil 1,1961. Matthews is a native of Poles- tine.

He has prscticed law in Dublin, San Angelo, Houston, Dallas and Palestine. He is president of the Texas Association of Hospital Governing Boards and chairman of trustees of Scott and White Hospital in Temple. T- parents been an Amircws resident St. John Lnivei-sity Convalescent Home. iiK-ludr- two brother- Ronnic' for raf s.

Tho had been a resident nf Luh- Chrisiian. 52nd Si nndl Scrvicc will bo Sunday at 2 in the Means Memorial Methodist Dr. A pastor, will officiate i Burial will be in Andrews Cemetery under direction of Funeral Home. Survivors are one son, Sam daughters, and Mrs. i j-i i-.

1 Church with lhe Rrv Willie- ann Jrrs Robert el, pastor, officiating of Oclossa and 11 grand- 4 and Mi-s. Kenneth R. (Cora) i will bo in and 7 Rreat-grandchil- family suggests that Bates. Memorial Park under direction! dren Alnpr Other sun-ivoi-s re three of Hammons Fr.neral Home 'in'r Vemie Holman. Goto- ilUcficI( i- Mrs.

Cora Havnie Mrs Locker, a Countv' BE IJN 'AP) 17th Cabot. nnd Mrs. Krsa' qinro J- 9 died Frulnv nnmiR Berlin Film Festival this Wallace, bine Heach. in Amhrrst Manor Nursing unlrn 'ill feature in its and 22 gramlchiMren and two. Holv stio first niovrd to Btila lrmor programs five B2S from Okla and Itll! lcri S'ri movies of the late Services are perulin- at Pixi 10 Sllf 'an in 1952.

comic. Harrv dfin Survivors include three two yons. luo hrolliers, ntons, Afemphis. Mrs jtwo sisters nnd her R. (Jewel) Dane.

607 morials ho made to lhe can Cancer Society. Mrs. Robinson Sen ices Today ANDREWS (Special) Mrs.Vuner;ii Tfolne Robinson. 77, died Friday: Paul Wliihrorth Riles Se arc at p.m. in Andrews Hos- pirnl after a lengthy illness.

I She had lived in Kermit for approximately 15 years and a former inciuae mree sons jKrnest William of Muleshoe I 1 Tramp. Tramp, Tramp," jKred of Hula and Monran D' ln26: Pants." 1327, of danchters "Three's Crowd" and Mrs. Irene Robinson Sudan'' Ciinsor," both 1023. For BeauKful funeral flowers cal Warden's Flotcers POJ-WS1 her husband, George H. of Kcr- Wallace Funeral Home.

Thc Swishcr County boy was accidentally TOURISTS O.V RK.ACM ACAPUT.CO, Mexico (AP shot Thursday atiV a farm home northeast of RESTHAVEN FUNERAL HOME Friday services were in progress. electrical display accompanied this thundcr- cily providing an awesome panorama as it. moved left, and the First Methodist Church, where (Staff Pholo by Mike of lhe lonf: Easter weekend day. The first wave Thursday was estimated at 200.000 visitors Survivors, other than the! -JT' wl) visitors parents, are three sixers na-'U ma Ml00 Prna1 and' £-15 maj population. lcrna! grandmother.

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