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Thursday, June 25, 1970 THE SHREVEPORT TIMES Ark -Ark-La-Tex Deaths. Mrs. Roy L. Pierce Funeral services for Mrs. Roy L.

Pierce, 75, of 866 Jane who died at 8:35 p.m. Tuesday at the Olive Garden Nursing following a lengthy illness, will be held at 2:30 p.m. today at the Osborn Funeral Home chapel. The Rev. Dan Goodwin, pastor Broadmoor Presbyterian Church, will officiate.

Burial wil be in Forest Park Cemetery, Mrs. Pierce, a native of Longwood, had lived here for 60 years. She was a member of the Broadmoor Presbyterian Church. Survivors include her husband; and two sisters, Mrs. C.

H. McManus and Mrs. Paul Mullin, both of Shreveport. Pallbearers will be Ralph Fluker, A. B.

Deaver, Paul Mullin Henry Clay Mullin, A. B. Hearne and J. S. Hearne.

Elmo P. Stewart Elmo Pittman Stewart, 62, of 3744 Sumner died Wednesday, in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Shreveport after a lengthy illness. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. today in the Congers Funeral Home Chapel in Arcadia with the Rev. Paul Williamson officiating, assisted by the Rev.

Carrol T. Cole of San Marcus, Tex. Burial will be in the Hillerest Cemetery near Bossier City. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Sara Mayfield Stewart of Shreveport; one brother, Howard Stewart of Bossier City; and two sisters, Mrs.

Catherine Cole, and Mrs. Lynn Williams, both off: Woodville, Tex. Gus J. Beslin Gus J. Beslin, 46, of 701 Stephenson, died at 3 p.m.

Wednesday in Veterans Administration Hospital after a short illness. A lifelong resident of Shreveport, Mr. Beslin was a service station attendant and a member of the Catholic Church. He was a veteran of World War II. Survivors include his mother, Mrs.

Jane B. Karpe of Shreveport; a stepbrother, Harvard E. Kapre of Houston, and a sister, Mrs. R. E.

Scherz of Chicago, Ill. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Rose-Neath Funeral Home. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Mrs. C.

L. Wheeler Funeral services for Mrs. C. L. Wheeler, longtime resident and prominent churchwoman and civ-1 ic leader, will be today at Central Christian Church on 70th Street.

Officiating will be Dr. Howard J. Johnson, pastor. He will be assisted by Dr. Gilbert Davis pastor of Kings Highway Christian Church.

Osborn Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Pallbearers will be Dr. William F. Drummond and Milton J. Cameron, both of Shreveport, Lincoln White of El Dorado, and five grandsons, Charles McCall Sr.

and Dean Wheeler, both Shreveport, Will K. Norton Jr. Lubbock, of George Wheeler Jr. of Austin, and Tom E. Cook of Monroe.

Mrs. Wheeler died Tuesday at 1:15 p.m. at Gowen's Nursing Home following a long illness. LOUISIANA I. R.

Brunston RINGGOLD-Funeral services for I. R. Brunston, 88, of Ringgold, died Tuesday a Shreveport nursing home after a lengthy illness, will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Mt. Zion Baptist Church.

Burial will be cemetery under the of Rockett Funeral "direction Home. Survivors include; five sons, Charlie Brunston of Shreveport, Loyd Elmer Brunston I of Brunston of Sunnyvale, I Opa I Locka and Robert Brunston of Orange, five daughters, Mrs. Mable Bolton of Ringgold, Mrs. Marteal Goff of Oil City, Mrs. Marie Robinett of Baldwin Park.

and Mrs. Nora Elizabeth Myers of Park, 15 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. Ray T. Clark NATCHITOCHES--Ray Thomas Clark, 48, of Natchitoches died Tuesday night in Monroe. Mr.

Clark was a native of Natchitoches Parish and was associated with a well service for the oil fields, a veteran of World War II and a Mason. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Trinity Baptist Church Natchitoches with the Rev. David Hudnall officiating, assisted by the Rev. Owen Lofton.

Burial will be in the Jackson Cemetery near Flora. Survivofs include his widow: his mother, Mrs. John Clark of Natchitoches; four sons, Jerry, Clyde and Melvin, all of Natchitoches and Billy Clark from Provencal: two daughters, Mrs. Paula Simpson and Miss Vivian Clark, both of Natchitoches: one brother, John L. Clark of York, S.C.: one sister.

Mrs. Marie Sears of West Palm Beach, Fla. Chester F. Grantham MANSFIELD-Chester Franklin Grantham, 52, of Belmont died in a Many hospital Tuesday night. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.

today in the Belmont Baptist Church. Burial will be in the Belmont Cemetery under the direction of the Drewett Funeral Home of Mansfield. Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Sara Ollie Grantham of Road Work Is Planned Near Kilgore KILGORE, -Two major highway projects are to be constructed here in the near future, according to officials of the Texas Highway Department. One project is const: action of modern divided through-way on state highway 135.

The construetion will include a new traffic inter-change at the intersection of state highway 135 and state highway 31. The other project construction of two additional travel lanes along and adjacent to the south side the farm to market road 2204. oped in cooperation The projects are to be devel-, Bureau of Public Roads with financing being divided between the state and federal government. Innoculation Clinic Is Set In Lincoln RUSTON A special measles immunization program will be conducted at the Lincoln Parish health unit July 9, 10, from 9 a.m to 4 p.m. for all children ages one to 11.

German measles should not be confused with red measles. These are two entirely different diseases. If a child has received a shot to protect him against red measles he is not protected against German measles and should take the German measle shot, a health department official said. Although German measles is a less serious infection than the red measles they can endanger the unborn child. Expectant mother exposed during the first month of pregnancy face 60 per cent chance of giving birth to a defective child.

More than 20,000 unborn childre were afflicted with vision, hearing, heart, and other congenital defects during the last major outbreak of German measles 1964, according to health department officials. Natchitoches Unit to Give Inoculation NATCHITOCHES Dr. W. W. Knitmeyer, Natchitoches Parish Health Director, has announced that German measles vaccine has been made available to the Natchitoches Parish Health Unit to all children ages one through 12.

Dr Knitmeyer said it will provide an excellent opportunity for parents to cooperate in eliminating German measles as a dangerous childhood disease and a major cause of births defects. Only children ages one through 12 who not received the vaccine school or from their family doctor are eligible and there will be no charge for this service. Teams of nurses and technicians will visit communities in the parish beginning Tuesday to make the vaccines available. Mayor Loses Job But Will Seek It Again JENNINGS (AP) After losing his job by an 11-vote margin in a recall election, Mayor J. W.

Watson said Wednesday he hopes to be reappointed by the city's two commissioners and, in any case, intends to run for re-election. In complete returns from the Tuesday election, the vote was 1,654 to 1,643 in favor of recalling the mayor. The voters, however, retained Ray Constant, commissioner of streets and parks, and J. Horace Arceneaux, commissioner of finance. The two city commissioners are empowered to appoint a replacement for Watson until an election is held six months from now.

A citizens' committee promoted recall election after the city commission decided to go ahead with a federal housing project without submitting the matter to the electorate. Center Files For Grants CENTER, Tex. (AP) This town in East Texas has filed application for federal grants and loans totaling $3.8 million for waste water treatment and improving the city's water supply, including a line to Toledo Bend dam. FUNERAL SERVICES MR. GUS J.

BESLIN Plans Incomplete Rose-Neath FUNERAL HOME New Voting Bill Will Add 395,000 Voters in Texas AUSTIN (AP) The 18-yearold voting bill signed by President Nixon last week will add about 395,000 voters in Texas next year -if the U.S. Supreme Court hpholds it -Secretary of State Martin Dies Jr. predicted Wednesday, Nixon said he thinks only way to give 18-year-olds the vote is by an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but he signed the bill anyway, leaving the final decision to the Supreme Court. The law takes effect Jan.

1, and Dies said he expected the high court would rule on it before then. Under present registration laws 4.1 million qualified voters 21 and over registered before the Jan. 31 deadline but only 1.6 million voted in the May 2 primaries. Dies said that according to the Bureau of Census and the University of Texas Center ulation Studies there are approximately 594,000 persons in over 18 and less than 21 years. "Texas presently registers 66 per cent of its eligible voters and in general election years about 75 per cent of those registered actually vote," Dies said.

"If these percentages are followed by the 18 to 21 voter, Texas could expect an increase of almost 300,000 voters in the general election years which includes 1970)." Dies said he hoped the U.S. Supreme Court would rule on the issue before Oct. 1, which Judge Rules In Harrison Voting Case MARSHALL, Tex. (AP) A person living in a voting precinct where a polling place is provided may vote in another precinct, Dist. Judge John Furruh ruled' Wednesday, He gave his decision in the suit brought by James Collins, defeated by 16 votes for the Democratic nomination for county judge by incumbent Jim Ammerman in the May 2 primary.

The ruling affects votes cast in Harrison County, Earlier the judge ruled that 55 absentee ballots had been cast illegally because of a discrepancy between signatures on the ballots. One of the 55 ballots declared illegal is still missing, although the ballot stub was found in the box. Fayetteville Site Of Pop Festival Eight bands are lined up for a rock festival scheduled here on this an 80-acre farm near weekend. The festival will begin at 2 p.m. Friday and continue to Saturday night.

Sponsors are Denny Treadway and the owner of the farm, who was not idntified. David Fleishman of Memphis will be master of ceremonies. Tickets are $5 a person. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) NLSC Staffer Writes Article Belmont; four brothers, George Grantham of Belmont, Robert Grantham of Shreveport, Johnnie Grantham of Slagle and Marlin Grantham of Port Neches, three sisters, Mrs.

Erie Walker of Belmont, Mrs. S. F. Wilson of Many and Mrs. Mary Agnes Harkins of Oakland, Okla.

TEXAS Porter Griffin KILGORE. Tex. Porter of Kilgore died Wednesday in the Roy H. Leonard Memorial Hospital in Kilgore. He had been a resident of Kilgore since 1894 coming from Bethany, La.

Services will be 2 p.m. today in the St. Lukes Methodist Church with the Rev. N. A.

Brawner officiating. Burial will be in Kilgore Cemetery under the direction of Rader Funerall Home. Survivors are his widow; two sons, Barton Griffin of Kilgore, and Joseph A. Griffin of Dallas: five grandchildren; 10 greatgrandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. H.

E. Sherwood of Kilgore. C. T. Fitch III MARSHALL, Tex.

Charles Thomas Fitch a resident of Marshall, 'died Wednesday morning at Rusk. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Sulivan Funeral Home. Burial will be in Colonial Gardens. Survivors include one brother, Joe Dudley Fitch of Shreveport; two sisters, Mrs.

Bobby V. Campbell, of Marshall and Mrs. Samuel Steele of Malvern. his grandfather, F. lor, of Marshall; a number of nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Thelma Lux neral SAN services AUGUSTINE, for Mrs. Thelma Fern Lux, ces, of San Augustine will be held at 10 a.m. today in the Wyman Roberts Funeral Chapel in San Augustine. Burial will be in the San Augustine City Cemetery.

Mrs. Lux died late Tuesday morning in the Mother Frances Hospital Tyler from injuries received in a two-car accident last Sunday near Tyler. She was a former resident of Houston, retired employe of the Gulf Oil Company. Survivors include one son, Lee Counsellor of Hitchcock her father, J. A.

Whitehurst of Fort Worth; one sister, Miss Lucille Whitehurst of San Augustine. Mrs. Carrie Brennan PITTSBURG, Tex- -Mrs. Carrie Kennemer Brennan, 86, died Tuesday in a Garland nursing home after a long illness. Funeral services to be at 2 p.m.

in First Baptist Church with Rev. W. C. Beasley and Rev. L.

be Hill Cemetery under Lambs officiating. Burial will the direction of Erman Smith Funeral Home. Mrs. Brennan was a nativeof Alabama and had lived here for many years. She was a member of the Baptist church.

Survivors include: two sons, Charles R. Kennemer Jr. of Miami, and James B. Kennemer of Orlando, two daughters, Mrs. Mary L.

Smith and Mrs. Arthur C. Harrison, both of Dallas; twelve grandchildren and seven great dren. Mrs. Novie Coussons HEMPHILL, -Funeral services for Mrs.

Novie Ada Coussons, 67, were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Starr Funeral Home in Hemphill with the Rev. Dunn officiating. Burial was in the Hemphill Cemetery. Mrs.

Coussons died Monday night in a Nacogdoches hospital after a short illness. I Dr. Survivors Carl Coussons include of three Nacogdoch- sons, es, Paul Coussons of Hemphill lia; daughters, Mrs. Billy and Sammy, Coussons of MagnoSue Chambers of Hemphill, Mrs. Peggie Duke of Baytown and Mrs.

Bessie Lou Neal of San Augustine: two brothers, Lewis Pratt and Horace Pratt, both of Hemphill; two sisters, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Lydia Harper, both of Hemphill and 21 grandchildren. Mrs. Florence White HEMPHILL, ence White, 87, of Hemphill died Monday night in a hospital after a short illness.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. today in the Pine Hill Methodist Church with the Rev. Holt officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery under the direction of the Starr Funeral Home of Hemphill. Survivors include six sons, A.

V. White, David A. White, Curtis White, Arvil White, Donald White and Ronald B. White and Cecil White, all of Pineland; one sister, Mrs. Molly Wright of Jasper and 19 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.

Joseph J. Jones TYLER, services for Joseph J. Jones, 70, will be 2 p.m. today in the Bethel Baptist Church. Survivors include his widow; one daughter, Mrs.

Pauline roth of Beaumont; three brothers, Maxwell Jones of Paris, Bill Nicholson and Bart Nicholson of Dallas; five sisters, Mrs. Dora Smoke of Stella Chatman and Mrs. Ruby Reynolds of Mexia, Mrs. Betty Scroggins and Mrs. Katy Scroggins of Dallas; two dren.

1 ARKANSAS Marvin E. Smith CAMDEN, Marvin Earl Smith, 61, of Camden, in a Camden hospital Wednesday, Funeral services will be held at 2:50 p.m. at the Proctor Funeral Chapel with burial in the Camden Memorial Park. Survivors include his widow; one ridge; daughter, one Mrs. brother.

James Harley HarSmith; two, grandchildren and one niece, all of Camden, Mrs. C. V. Armour MAGNOLIA, services for Mrs. C.

V. Armour, 84, of Magnolia who died early Tuesday in a local nursing home, were held Wednesday in the Lewis Funeral Home with Dr. Leland Clegg officiating. Burial was in Magnolia Memorial Park. She was a native of Texas.

Survivors include a son, M. V. Armour of Coca, one brother, Carl Derr of Vinton, one sister, Mrs. Ella Moser Beaumont, eight grandchildren, including Magnolia, Mrs. and Sterling two great -grandchildren.

El Dorado Youth Killed by Tree EL DORADO, Ark. AP)Tommy Brown, 15, of Lillie, was killed Wednesday when a tree fell on him near the Three Creeks community about 15 miles southwest of here. Authorities said Brown, his father and a companion ewre cutting pulpwood when the accident occurred. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Albert Brown of Lillie. Postmasters Elect Head At Convention ALEXANDRIA-R. M. Williamson of Dubach was elected president of the Louisiana branch of the national league of postmasters at the close of the annual convention here Wednesday. Ten sectional vice presidents elected included Mrs.

Myrtle Edgecomb of Nairn, George Bennett of Atlanta, Kermit Pinsomat of Lavonia, Mrs. Belva Dyess of Folsom. Raymond Couvellion of Melville, Roy Loftin Evans, Mrs. Mable Ross of Montequet, J. C.

Platt of Swartz, Mrs. Martha Wimberly of Castro and Morris Roy of Oita. Radio Club Plans Meet In Marshall MARSHALL, Tex. More than 1,000 out-of-town visitors are expected here Friday to attend the annual CB Round-Up Jamboree. The Jamboree is held each year for licensed CB radio operators from across the United States and is hosted by the Marshall CB Radio Club.

The Jamboree is designed to provide an opportunity for CB operators to meet and see each other, many for the first time. CBer's also discuss mutual problems concerning operations of CB radios and radio equipment. Featured this week-end will be a parade, talent show, a fashion show with male CBer's dressed as females and a catered barbeque. HEW Okays Money for Etex Area LONGVIEW, States Department Health, for 20 welding trainees. The Both of the projects, according to HEW officials, will be conducted at the Longview schools.

The funds totaling $38,673 were allocated for a course for 20 welding trainees. The second project consists of $41,466 for an 18 week course to train 20 production machine operators. Both of the projects, according 0 HEW officials, will be conducted at the Tongview schools. Two courses in the same fields have just been completed in the local school system. Teacher Named At Northwestern NATCHITOCHES Mrs.

June King has been appointed instructor of health, physical education and recreation at Northwestern State University, according to President Arnold R. Kilpatrick. A graduate of Eastern Kentucky University, King native of Covington, Ky. She will receive her master's degree this summer from the University of Tennessee. For the past year, Mrs.

King has worked on a graduate assistantship in the department of physical education at Tennessee. She has taught in Cincinnati, Ohio and in Woodland Mills, Tenn. Mrs. King has also served as recreation director at Glaydin School and Camp in Leesburg, Va. is the date Texas began registering voters for 1971.

"If the statute is ruled unconstitutional after October, the tax assessors will have to purge their voter lists of those under 21)," Dies said. Northwestern Appoints New Staff Member NATCHITOCHES -President Arnold R. Kilpatrick of Northwestern State University has announced the appointment of Miss Jimmie Clarice Dans as assistant professor of special education, effective Sept. 1. A native of Converse Miss Dans will be assigned to the Special Education Northwestern Natchitoches.

Dr. M. J. Cousins, head of the Northwestern Special Education Department, said Miss Dans will work in the Northwestern Speech Hearing and will teach speech pathology. For the past two years, Miss Dans has taught at Louisiana Tech.

Before that, she worked as a speech, therapist in the Sabine Parish school systems and was speech pathologist at the Tennessee Valley Rehabilitation Center in Decatur, Ala. MONROE Dr. Wallace Jones associate professor of education at Northeast Louisiana State College, is author of an article which appears in the current issue of The Boardman, the official journal of the Louisiana School Boards Association. The journal is a monthly publication received by school board members throughout Louisiana. Dr.

Jones' article is titled "the Teacher and Tenure." NSU Group Votes NATCHITOCHES New officers of the Northwestern Reading Council of Louisiana are Mrs. Olive Ann Willis, Winnfield, reading coordinator for Winn Parish Schools, president; Mrs. Hannah Brumfield, Many, reading teacher in Vernon Parish Schools, president-elect, and Dr. Ronald Dubois, Northwestern State they University, secretary-treasurer. officers were elected during a recent conference at NSU.

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