Northwest Arkansas Times from Fayetteville, Arkansas • Page 2

ArVonwi TIMES, Friday, Jufy tl, 1969 rAYETTRVILLl, ARKANSAS Soviet Task Force Heads Toward Cuba Crops Damaged As Heat Wave Sears South MEMPHIS. Tcnn. (AP)--The heal wave which has seared mid-South residents since June JACKSONVILLE, a (AP)I21 is bcginnig to damage crops. A Soviet task force, shad I owed by a U. S.

radar picket cou'nly agent ship, moved slowly and boldly toward Cuba today in an unprecedented show of Ihe Russian flag. In the early morning hours the eight Soviet ships were reported about 600 miles from Cuban shores, meandering from lime-to-time but pressing ever closer to an expected July 20 arrival. Keeping a watchful eye on the Soviet force is the U.S. radar picket ship Thomas J. Gary out of Key West, and U.S.

pa trol planes making daily flights out of bases in Maine and Mary land. Navy press officers planned to fly a group of newsmen over the task force today. The Soviets have made it clear their intention is to send the Russian warships on their first visit to Premier Fidel Castro's Cuba. The force is expect ed to stay through the July 26 revolutionary celebration Cuba or Soviet naval day which falls on July 27. The maneuver is viewed by some U.S.

military sources as possibly a response to the yearly visits by U.S. to the Black Sea near Soviet territory. And it provides an opportunity for the Soviet navy to practice keeping submarines in operation for extended periods $way from shore-based support. The task force is comprised of a guided missile cruis er of the "Kynda" class; a destroyer that can carry anti-ship missiles; a can be armed with anti-air missiles; two conventional submarines; tender, and Ugal Notices sub State Bank No. 81-506 CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF CONDITION OF BANK OF ELKINS of Elkins in the State of Arkansas and Domestic Subsidiaries at the close of business on June 30,1969.

ASSETS Cash and due from 313,535.22 U.S. Treasury securities 458,060.00 Obligations of States and political subdivisions 490,631.23 Other loans 1,654,478.78 Bank premises, furniture and fixtures, and other assets representing bank premises 86,356.12 'Real estate owned other than bank premises 1.00 Other assets Francis County. said Thursday. "The cotton is spotted, soybeans critical, pastures are burning and the rice a ers are keeping their wells ning all night because of the evaporation." The hot, dry weather already has caused extensive damage to Mississippi watermelon officials said. Melons normally weighing 25 pounds were reported weighing 14 to 18 pounds or less.

In Shelby County. some watermelons have literally dried up. Obituary Huntsville Ra Harwood, 62, a Huntsville died a Little Hock hospital. He horn in Madison County 17. 1907.

He is survived by the widow. Mrs. Vitis Harwood. home: a son. David, of Huntsville; a step son.

i gnmery of Linwood. Ca Ktrp-riiiughter, Mrs. Jean Shinn (if i a brother, neth of Berryville and grandchildren. Funeral service will a.m. Saturday at Alaharn Chur ch with burial in A a a Cemetery under the Brashears Funeral Home.

Title 1 Funds Approved For Area Schools "A good general rain is badly nr-erirrt." said H. T. Garretl. ex tension horticulturist at Stark- villc. Miss.

"We are on the verge of bad trouble if we don't gel rain in the next few days." Especially injured have been the mid-Soiith's vegetable crop, mosl of which aren't irrigated. Joe Cavataio. owner of a Memphis produce shop. said. "It's never been this bad that I can remember.

The tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, beans -they're all burning up. It's already bad. Next week it'll be an all-out crisis." The agricultural forecaster at the Memphis Weather Bureau said that although extreme heat and drying condilions are pr ent throughout the mid-South, it wasn't yet an areawide "major condition." "Some areas have experi enced heavy thundershowers during the period, and are reporting normal conditions." he said. "You can find a great variation from one area to the other because of the spotted ain." Most county agents said, however, lhat there must be rain within the next four or five days or there will be serious trouble. "Some farmers already are laying irrigation ditches to aid late soybeans," said Dr.

A. Holley, state agent for Arkansas Agricultural Extension Serv ice in Little Rock. "We'll need rain in the next four or five days to prevent serious damage to all crops." In some Mississippi counties, the temperalure has climbed as high as 106 degrees, there is reported widespread wilting of soybeans and cotton. Business Notes TOTAL ASSETS $3,003 477 45 LIABILITIES Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations $1,310,317.34 Time and savings deposits of individuals, partnerships. and corporations 1,346,739.69 Deposits of United States Government 3,508.88 Deposits of States and political subdivisions 71,028.44 Total Deposits $2,731,594.35 (a) Total 415.10i Arkansas Western Gas Company has been notified that its 1968 Annual Report was declared a "merit award" winner in Financial World's annual report survey for 1969.

The "merit award" recognition of the overall excellence of the contents and design of Arkansas Western's Report. The winning of this award makes the company's report eligible for the coveted "Oscar of Industry" trophy lo be awarded in New York City. 1,368,354.66 1,353,239.69 demand deposits (b) Total time and savings deposits TOTAL LIABILITIES $2.731.594.35 RESERVES ON" LOANS AND SECURITIES Reserve for bed debt losses on loans 19,665.53 TOTAL RESERVES ON LOANS AND SECURITIES 13.665.S3 CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Equity capital, total 252,217.57 Common stock- total par value 'No. shares authorized 1,500) 'No. shares outstanding 1,500) Surplus Undivided profits TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 37,500.00 172.500.00 42.217.57 252,217.57 TOTAL LIABILITIES, RESERVES, AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS $3,003 477 45 MEMORANDA Average of tolal deposits for the 15 calendar days ending with call dale Average of total loans for the 15 calendar davs ending with call date 1.665.111.00 Unearned discount on inslalment loans included in total capital accounts 470.00 J.

E. Bunch, President, of the abnvc-nnniod bank, do solemnly affirm lhat this report of condi tlon Is true and correct, to the best of my knowledge and belief. J. E. Bunch Correct--Alteslt L.

Buncli Kdyth L. Hunch Ror Slokenberry Directors of Arkansas, County of Washinglnn, ss: Sworn to and subscribed before this mil day of I hfreby ccrlify lhat I nm not officer or director of this hunk. commission expires Juno 1, NTT Palsy Swcclser Nnrtnry Public Collins Happy With Job On Lunar Flight SPACE CENTER, (AP) The wags ai that Michael Collins is like the guy who stayed on the Maria while Columbus ashore. While Neil Armstrong and Ed- E. Aldrin Jr.

take man's first steps on the moon early on July 21, Collins will command ship alone orbit 60 miles above them. "Well, I think I would probably be less than honest if I said I thought I had the best seat of the three," says Air Force Lt. Col. Collins. "On the other hand, I can also say with complete honesty that I'm happy with the seat that I have I like to feel couldn't he doing what they are doing unless I were there doing my third of the part.

NOT FRUSTRATED "I don't feel the slightest bit frustrated. I couldn't be happier than to be where I am." A slender, cheerful many dimensions. Collins. 38. is neither awed by his destiny nor unduly impressed with the importance of his role in the epic adventure.

"Well, of course, just my own personal viewpoint, I'r going anywhere that a of previous crews havei ready gone." he said in cent interview. "It looks to me that if took Apollo 11 and the preceding manned Apollo flights --the five flights altogether--it's sort of like if you took five guys six feet tall and you told them they had to get over a vail. "I feel sort of like the piece de 'esistance in a way--if all goes veil. But we're really just that ast guy getting over that 30-foot vail and if he didn't have the shoulders of five people under lim to stand on, he wouldn't be there." LONELY LIFEGUARD When Armstrong and separate from the coi ship July 20 for the descent to the moon, Collins In effect becomes the lonely li the Apollo 11 million. If trouble develops aboard the fragile moonship on the way down, he holds the only hope of survival for his colleagues.

But he cannot land the command ship on the moon. So if rescue is impossible, fire his rocket and Troops Headed For Home After Last Formation FT. LEWIS, Wash. (AP) The first U.S. troops withdrawn from Vietnam made their final formation Thursday night, said goodbye to their commander, and set off for home leave.

The 788 men earlier had paraded and dined in Seattle, where they heard Secretary of the Army Stanley R. Hesor describe their return as "tangible evidence of our progress" toward reducing the American military commitment in Vietnam. As Resor addressed the members of the 3rd Battalion, 60th Infanlry. 9lh I a Division, his remarks occasionally were blurred by the shouls of antiwar dcmonslrators demanding, "Bring them all home now!" The jeers of demonstrators had been matched by cheer? from the crowd as the men marched through a chill rain each carrying a red rose pre sented by women bank em ployes. A group of a i a pickcb wailed outside the hall a i placards a read, "Welcome home GIs, join our next demon stration." The soldiers responded i cries of.

"Get a uniform" and. "Don't worry, they'll get you next!" Motions To Dismiss Charges Are Filed Motions to dismiss charges of illegal possession of a i a a against two persons arrested in local raids May 24 were filed by their attorneys Thursday. The two are Joe Benslon and Robert N. Unker. They were nrreslcd in separate raids.

Similnr motions were filed on behalf of three other persons Monday. All live motions hold lhat thr prosecutor has a i to produce physical evidence filogcdly seized in the mills. quarter-million alone, leaving miles to Armstrong Aldrin stranded, to die on moon. "I think it's an extremely re- mole possibility but those the facts of the matter, as we all know." Collins said, sure Neil and Buzz stand." DANGER INHERENT While the "best possible job" has been done to insure crew safety, he said, danger is inherent in such a mission. "If, for example, a teorite of sufficient size hits, or if a crack develops, well air leaks out.

and that's just an inescapable fact." be said. "And there are other equally weak links in the chai hope they won't break, links, and we've made them as strong as humanly possible, but if one of them breaks, it's broken." He does not welcome the pros peel of becoming a hern. "I don't know." he "Unfortunately, it's one of those things you'll never know until it happens, if it happens. And by that time it'll be too late. "If you don't like it, il'll too late.

You know- mean? You don'l have chance of backing nul. I think 1 would prefer to a i anonymous. "You know. I'm not really hie on parades and speeches that sort of thing. I enjoy where I want to go when want to go.

without pco: mo around. "You Address Of County Prisoner Corrected An incorrect address David Rex Curry, Grove, arrested for investigation of robbery, was on the sheriff's hooks and published in the TIMES several days ago. His correct address is 403 Thurman. and not 407 W. Thur man.

Prairie Grove Sentenced II. L. Turnhull of Spnngdalf was sentenced to one year in the county jiiil In Washington Circuit Court Thursday. Turnbull, who enrller denied stealing shotgun residence of his former plover, changed his guilty Thursday. 'Illiamn ol day in of the llunts- Monta i a i Shinn r.

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Paul Mrs. a Jane Hawkins, HO, a resident of St. Paul died Wednesday in the Madison County hospital. She was burn a 7. 1879 in Pope County.

A She is survived by two step- suns, Alfred a i uf Combs, am Johnnie a i of St. Paul; three step daughters, Mrs. Mary I i i i a and Mrs. Mae Cooper, both uf SI. Paul and Grace Thomas ''ayetteville; a brother, James T.

Davis of Lamar; two sisters, Mrs. Edith Smith of Muskogee and Mrs. Lottie Minney of Saxton, Mo. and 18 grand i Funeral service i hr 3 p.m. Saturday at Combs Baptist Church i burial in Riverside Cemetery the direction of Brashears Funeral Home.

WH Two school i i in a i ington County a received approval for i 1 for the school year of 1909-70. but actual appropriation may be considerably less a the grants. The funds allocated llu- a and Secondary education Act. were announced IS. (1.

Williams, associate commissioner of the Frdr-ra Programs Division of the Stale. Department of Education. Springdale School i has been approved for and Washington Countv School i i 20 for J15.Gfl.". This amount is 90 percent of a spent last year and was approved as guaranteed advance i for fiscal 1970 last a The exact amount of Ihe appropriation will not ic known i Congressional Jess C. Bcntlav." 77 of Combs OK I a i vpi i i a died Julv 9 in the i i i hospital.

Born Oct. 19, 1891 at Clinton, the son of Thomas and Martha Ann Bentley. he was a retired farmer and a Rantist Survivors are the i Mrs. Fayc Bentley of the home: one son, Jack of Norwalk, one daughter. Mrs.

Dorothy Mainard of Anaheim, three brothers. Bill of Claremore, Okla. and Ervin and Ben. said. The gap between the rizcd i and the appropri- a ion has increased each year, dropping from 84 percent in 1967 to a recommended 116 percent by the administration this a Williams pointed out.

He said schools in Arkansas will suffer from such a cutback and urged support of i for the amount authored in education aid. both of Tulare. sisters. Mrs. Bell Woody of I Claremore.

Mrs. Rosie Heiskill of Cromwell. Mrs. i nie Dykes of Tulare and Mrs. Viola Bradbury of A a i a seven gradnchildrcn.

and six great grandchildren. Funeral sen-ice will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Combs Baptist Church i burial it Police, Sheriffs' Departments Get Federal Funds Ledbetter Cemetery under i rection of Moore's" Chapel. 1 1 i- Area News In Brief '''i'' ANNUAL SERVICES annual memorial a decoration services at the Walnut Grove Cemetery will be held July 19. TRANSMISSION STOLEN A four-speed transmission was stolen Wednesday night from a 1963 Oldsmobile Cutlass parked in front of the residence of Allen Tackett, 443 Rebecca.

Police said the car is owned 5y Curtis Villines. who is on active duty i the Army. FOUND GUILTY Ken C. Lawson, 54. of 2025 S.

School was found guilty in Municipal Court Thursday of driving while intoxicated. Judge James Ptak fined Lawson J518.50, revoked his driver's cense for six mouths, a sentenced him to fiO days i ail. It was Lawson's fourth conviclion on Ihis offense. Lawson was arrested Patrolman Joe Black during an investigation of a traffic accident on July 4. Police said Lawson struck the rear of a car driven bv Wcslev Wheeler, W.

Poplar, at 9:20 p.m. at the intersection of 71 south and 15th Strenl. Damage to Wheeler's automobile was estimated to be $383. PICNIC PLANNED A picnic for past and present participanls in the Business Education classes sponsored by the Washington County Kco- nomic Opportunity Agency i be held Sunday. July 20.

he ginning at 3 p.m. in Walker Park in Fayetteville. Games are planned and prizes will be awarded winners. Those attending are asked to bring a covered dish and table service. In case of rain the picnic will be postponed for one week.

FENCE POSTS STOLEN Thieves took 100 pine fence posts and some empty fruit jars from his place at Route 1, Tontilown. Johnny Stockton reported to the i office Thursday. BREAK IN TRY Bob Carnes. a resident of Green Acres Trailer Park. Hwy.

16 west, has reported to the sheriff's office thai someone attempted to break into his LITTLE ROCK (AP) The stale Commission on Crime and Law Enforcement parceled $80.425 in federally provided funds Thursday to Arkansas law enforcement agencies. The funds are part of $241.570 provided under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets; Acl of 1968. The grants, with amounts. went to: A a i a Police Department Boone Countv Sheriff's Department. Carroll Counly Sheriff's Department.

Desha County 1 Sheriff's Department. Dumas Police Department. 1 129; Fort Smith Municipal Court. J201; Greene County Sheriff's Department, Harrison Police Department, Little Rock Police De-: partment. Magnolia Police Department, $465: Monticello Police Department, $2,629: Pulaski Counly Sheriff's Depart ment.

Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academv. $31.398: Blythcville Police Department, $5.428. Applications were reviewed by the commission according to priorities established by Arkansas' first-year plan, which was approved by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration of the U.S. Justice Department. The $241,570 received by the a is to implement the first year of the crime control program.

A number of applications are still being processed, and some have been held up for additional information before consideration can be given, Hickey said. The commission hopes to make the best possible use of the federal grant to im- prove the criminal justice system in Ihe slale. lip said. River Stones LITTLE ROCK (AP)- River stages Flood lit. Chge.

Arkansas Muskogee 35 12.9 1.0 Van Buren 22 15.9 0.1 Little Rock 23 10.6 0.2' Pine Bluff 47 33.1 0.1 1 White Batesville 23 9.8 1.0. Newport 26 8.0 0.8 Clarendon 26 14.5 0.3 Ouachita Arkadelphia 17 4.8 01 Camden 2fi 4.8 unch Buffalo at Gilbert 2.0. down 0.1. Mississippi at Greenville 34.1, down 0.1. trailer Wednesday night.

Feltncr Enters Plea CHARGES FILED Washington County Prnsceii- tor Mahlon Gibson filed charges of escape from custody Tuesday against a i of men who walked away from a county jail work detail in May. The three are John L. Brewsler, L. Harrison and Glenn K. Litle.

All three were serving i for i i while intoxicated. Lawrence a Fcltner of Route 1. a i i Grove, entered a plea of innocent at his arraignment in Washington Cir cuit Court Wednesday. Prosecutor Mahlon Gibson filed formal charges of assault i i to i against Keltner Wednesday following a five-week investigation of a shooting incident Feltnrr was involved in. Enrich Your Life by Attending REVIVAL SERVICES Shijti at OAKLAND 1 'i BAPTIST CHURCH JULY 14-20 7:30 P.M.

Evangelist: Rev. W. P. Murchiion Bridge City, Texas Pastor: Rev. Virgil Johnson Marines Ask For Funds To Buy British VSTOL Planes A I A I a rine planners wmt nearly $2.10 million worth of special fighter i planes designed to a off a i up small clearings close behind a lines and provide immediate support for infantry.

Congress has been asked to vote $57 million for 12 British- built Harrier planes to be used for service testing and develop ing tactical doctrine. Marine sources, already convinced the a i would he more effective than any other fighter for the future, said the Corps hopes over the next few years to buy a total of about ti5 Harriers and organize them into three squadrons. The Harrier, already being incorporated into the Royal Air Force, is the first vertical-short Growth (CONTINUED THOM PAGE ONE) the possible building of an auditorium. Prospects for record enrollment at the University next year are good in spite of the recent increase in tuition, according to Hughes. He added, however, a the University was troubled by the resignations and retirement of key personnel.

"As far as numbers are concerned, this year was about the same, but key people have left." he said. Hughes pointed out the loss of two department chairmen this year. "This is the worst year we've a retirements." Hughes said. "Thirteen faculty members have retired and w'" be hard to replace." Two Year Prison Term Given Clark Onie Ray Clark of 129 E. Mountain St.

was sentenced to two years in the slate penitentiary for burglary by Washington Circuit Court Thursday. A molion by Clark's allorney to quash Ihe panel because there were no Negroes on it was overuled by Judge Maupin Cummings. Clark is a Negro. Clark then changed his pier, to guilty. His two-year sentence is to be served concurrently with another two-year term, with 30 days credit being given for time he already has served locally.

To Hold Rodeo VINITA, purses for the annual Will Rogers Memorial Rodeo here Augs. 2024 have been approved at $7,040 by the Rodeo Cowboys Association. The rodeo is 1 of 10 in the state approved by the RCA for the summer, and carries with it the biggest purse which will be combined entry fees to swell the prize money. takeolf and a i plane VSTOL to show real coinhal promise, a i experts said. The i States and Britain have curried on research and development in the field for years but with limited success.

The Russians are reported near plane production of a VSTOL code named "Freehand." SOME QUESTION Congress may approve the first 12. hut there is some flues- lion whether the a a Egypt Launches Raid Across Suez Canal Ity THE ASSOCIATED PIIKSS Egypt launched a raid across Ihe a a Thursday night and said it was its biggest, success since tin- A a I a i war. Israel reported four of il.i soldiers i wounded and one a a captured. Tel A i today i a of reprisal. would go for the a i plan if the present harsh mood toward defense spending should continue on Capitol Hill.

However, the Marines have a reputation for relative austerity in their budget proposals, and this reputation could help them. The Marine decision to go ahead with the Harrier culminates a search for more a 20 years for a plane to compliment the helicopter in exploiting what is called "forward area capability." As Marine experts cnvison it. the Harrier--built to carry a 5.000-pound payload of bombs, rockets and other ordnance- could be positioned far forward, close to regimental or brigade command posts. The plane could he ordered aloft--rising vertically from clearings in forest or jungle-for close fire support of infantry fighting a short distance away. The Harrier, which looks like a conventional airplane, can accelerate to horizontal flight in 15 seconds and can reach speeds of 700 miles per hour.

Marine experts say. A Cairo i i a i said the raid resulted in the "wounding or i i of at least 40 persons" and that the Egyp- lian force destroyed five a the no-minute battle near Port a i at the southern end of the canal. Israeli military officials said Israeli forces drove off the com- Egyptian unit i bazooka shells, before it entered heir emplacement. In addition to the casualties, they reported damaged tanks. On the diplomatic front, Joseph J.

Sisco, U.S. assistant secretary of state, conferred with British Foreign officials Thursday on a Middle East peace settlement before flying to Paris and Moscow. The Middle East News Agency reported Sisco was taking new U.S. proposals to the Soviet capital in answer lo Soviet pro- oosals delivered in Washington last month. Two Fliers Who Strayed Across Border Released MOSCOW A Two fliers from the United States and West Germany have been released by the Soviet Union after being held a week for strayins across the border, a U.S.

Embassy spokesman said today. He said Lt. Col. George Patterson of Chamblee, and Dr. Karl Sichelstiel were lold they could continue on their way to Turkey, their destination in a light plane rally when they made an emergency landing in Soviet territory on the Black Sea coast July 4.

The spokesman said the men were to leave the Black Sea town of Batumi as soon as weather i "The chances are they have already taken off for Turkey." he said. The release was announced by the Soviet Foreign Ministry this morning in a phone call to the U.S. Embassy. The Foreign Ministry said Soviet officials who investigated the incident near the Turkish border concluded the men would not be put on trial for a border violation, the U.S. spokesman said.

WR Willing To Be Moderator In Dispute LITTLE ROCK (AP) Gov. i Rockefeller said Thursday a he would ba "perfectly willing" lo acl as "moderator" in a Forrest Cily dispute that arose over a number of grievances by Negroes. Rockefeller told a news conference that he would go to For- resl City if he were invited and would meet with groups that represented Forrest City. He said, however, that he questioned whether Sweet Willie Wine, a i a Lance Watson, a member of a Memphis black militant group called the Invaders a is helping in a boycott of Forrest City merchants, was representative of the people of Forrest City. The governor said that he bad met earlier Thursday with Forrest City Mayor Robert Cope.

St. Francis County Sheriff Clarence Montgomery, State Police Director Ralph Scott. FBI agents and Maj. Gen. Charles Wilson of the Arkansas National Gusrd.

He said Ihe called so that he could brought up to date on the Forrest City situation and lo find out "where we stand so we can meet whatever problems may come up." He said Forrest City was in "a constant fluid situation" and thatForrest City officials felt that Forrest Ciiy officials felt hoped for as a result of meetings of the cily's Biracial Committee had not developed. Large Group--Pastel SPORTSWEAR price BLOUSES Odd Lots Discontinued Styles Price One Group COATS Latest Styles SAVE Off Regular Price LINGERIE Capns Shop Friday Nights 'til 8 p.m. Baby Doll Waltz Downtown Springdale.