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of of of of of of of of of of of of 8 Are Killed in Louisiana Weekend Road Accidents The Associated Press Eight persons died on Louisiana highways in weekend traftie accidents. George Smith 19, Smith Ridge was killed near his Terrebonne Parish home Sunday when the truck in which hs was left Louisiana 24 and slammed into a bank of trees. Another passenger, 17-year-old Ronald Williams of Smith Ridge, was seriously injured. The driver, Calvin Richardson, escaped serious injuries, In accidents Saturday Sgt. Joseph Dupin of West Lake, a state police traffic safeeducation officer, and Mrs.

Fay Andrews, 39, Lake Charles, were killed in a headon, twocar crash near Sulphur. Dupin was alone in his personal car when the accident occurred on I-10, police said. Frank Jones. 45, of Houston was killed when his car left the highway and overturned in Caddo Parish near Shreveport. port.

Mrs. Kenneth Wyatt and Denise Dew. both of Provencal, were killed when their auto collided with a truck near that community. Chapel in Texarkana. Burial will be in the Ronda Memorial Park.

James R. Page HOPE, Ark. James R. Page, 86, died in Dallas Friday. He was a native of Hope.

Survivors include Robert P. Page of Texarkana; five daughters, Mrs. Earl Bruce of Hope, Mrs. Horace Calhoun of Washington, Mrs. Charles Settlemeyer, Mrs.

Richard Warner, both of Dallas, and Mrs. 0. C. Walthall of Little Rock; 12 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild; two sisters, Mrs. Ernest Horton of Pittsberg, and Mrs.

Albert Smith of Cincinnati, Ohio. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today in the Herndon Funeral Home Chapel with the Jim Sewell officiating. Burial will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery under the direction of THE SHREVEPORT TIMES Monday, Dec. 22, 1969 9.A Tex and Patricia both her grandparents, Mr.

Mrs. W. W. of and Mr. Mrs.

Ford, Golden of Jena. Mrs. Kenneth Wyatt George Temples Jena; Mrs. George W. Temples, 84, 185 Bellmead, died at 2 p.m.

Sunday the Louisiana Nursing Home after a lengthy illness. FIA native and resident of Homer before moving to port eight years ago, Mrs. Temples was a member of Bethlehem Methodist Church. Her given name was Willie Mae. Funeral services are incomplete at Neath Funeral Home.

Burial will Bethlehem Cemetery in Claiborne Parish. Survivors are Col. George C. Temples of Homestead Air Force Base, three daughters, Mr's. Lee Bassham, Shreveport, and Mrs.

Harry Weissinger and Tinney, one both brother. of Joe G. Miller of Sibley; one sister, Mrs. Florence Arthur of Caney, 16 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Louie B.

Owens Louie B. Owens, 57, of Texar-1 kana, father of Mrs. Ben Holman of Shreveport, died suddenly at his home Saturday. Owens native of Batesville, Wand had lived in Texarkana most of his life. He was a salesman for Alto Mills Lumber Co.

in Texarkana and was a member of the Baptist Church. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today at the East Funeral Home chapel in Texarkana, with the Harold Vernon, associate pastor of the Beech Street Baptist Church in Texarkana, officiating. Burial will be in Rondo Memorial Park Cemetery in Texarkana. Other survivors include his widow: thres.

daughters, Mrs. Holman, Don Crain of Minden and Mrs. Gail Robbins of Little Rock, and six grandchildren. LOUISIANA Owen G. Herren MINDEN Owen G.

Herren, died Saturday after a short illness in the Minden Sanitarium. Mr. Herrin was a lifetime resident of Doyline. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. today in the Pilgrim's Rest Baptist Church with the Rev.

Harold Pitman, pastor of the Pilgrim's Rest Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Church Cemetery under the direction of the First National Funeral Home of Minden. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Maggie Herren of Doyline; four sons, Morris Herren of Minden, James Herren, Travis Herren, and Owen Herren of Doyline; two daughters, Mrs. Alverne Dick, and Mrs.

Neta McDowell, both of Doyline; one William T. Herren of Doyline; four sisters, Dora Carter of Doyline, Mrs. Vera Holtclaw of Atlanta, Mrs. Ruth Ann Woodard of Duncan, and Mrs. Polly Martin of Bossier City; and eight grandchildren.

Mrs. Ellis F. Pilgren BERNICE Funeral services for Mrs. Ellis F. Pilgren, 51, of Bernice were held at 2:30 p.m.

Sunday the Shiloh Baptist Church with the Rev. Forest Post officiating. Burial was in the Church Cemetery under the direction of the First National Funeral Home of Bernice. Mrs. Pilgren was killed suddenly in a car accident around 1 Saturday Bernice.

She p.m. was a native of Bernice. Survivors include her mother, Mrs. Anna K. Lindsey of Bernice; her husband, Ellis Pilgren Bernice; two sons, James Pilgren and Billy Joe, Pilgren, both of Bernice; two daughters, Mrs.

Patsy Petersen of Bernice Mrs. James Swanner of and Junction City, and five grandchildren. Charlotte Dew NATCHITOCHES Charlotte 14, died Saturday in Denise Dew, an Provencal. automobile She accident, near student Provencal High School and in the was a native of Natchitoches. services will be at 11 Funeral today in the Pentea.m.

Church in Provencal with costal the Rev. V. R. Blizzard officiatBurial will be in the ing. Provencal Cemetery under the direction of Blanchard's Funeral Home.

Survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Dew Provencal: one Dennis Dew of Provencal; her Wester Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph E. Jackson of Bossier grandparents, City. Mrs. J. E.

Pinsley HOMER Mrs. J. E. Pinsley died Sunday at her residence. Funeral services will be in the First at National 3 p.m.

today. Burial Funeral Home Chapel will be in the Old Town Cemetery in Haynesville. Survivors include her husband: John A. Pinsley of two sons, City and Jessie B. Bossier Pinsley of Texarkana; two daughters, Mrs.

Clyde Melton of Homer and Mrs. Bill McKenzie Shreveport; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Pie Perkins of Austin, one brother, C. P. Mccuen Cotton Valley.

Tamra Ann Deas JENA Tamra Ann Deas, infant daughter of Mrs. Shirley Deas of Jena died at 4 a.m. Sunday after a sudden illness. Funeral services, will be at 3 Tuesday Oak Ridge p.m. Baptist Church with the Rev.

Leslie McCartney officiating. Burial will be in the Pine Grove Cemetery in Rhinehart under the direction of Kinner and Funeral Home. Survivors include one brother, Scott Deas of Jena; two sisters, Local Man Is Now Inspector Charles E. Wise, 25, of Shreveport, recently graduated from the United States Border Patrol Academy at Los Fresnos, and will serve as a patrol inspector in the Calexico, patrol sector, Wise, the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Frederick M. Burr of Ft. Hood, was a member of the 94th session of the academy and was one of 98 new officers successfully completing the academy course, ham of Greenbriar, Ark. and Mrs. Gladys Shoate of Carthage; one sister, Mrs.

Olie Peddy of Teneha. F. C. Green WASKOM, Tex. Funeral services for F.

C. Green, 65, of Waskom will be held Tuesday at the First Presbyterian Church in Waskom with the Rev. M. L. Baker officiating.

Burial will be in the Restland Cemetery in Waskom. Mr. Green died Sunday morning at 5 a.m. in the Highland Hospital Shreveport, following a brief illness. a native of Brimingham, Ala.

He had lived in Waskom for many years and was employed as an accountant. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church and served as Church Treasurer. He was a veteran of World War II serving in the European Theatre. Survivors include his widow; one son, Lt. Cmdr.

F. C. Green Jr. of the U.S. Navy; two grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs.

A. H. Adams and Mrs. Felix Nicholson of Atlanta, one brother, Roy Green of Houston. Elbert L.

Chatham MARSHALL, Tex. Elbert Lee Chatham, 56, died early Sunday morning in the Rusk State Hospital after an illness of about six months. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. today in the Colonial Chapel of the Sullivan Funeral Home in Marshall with the Rev. James C.

Hilburn officiating, assisted by the Rev. Harold Murray. Burial will be in the Garden of the Frost in the Colonial Garden Cemetery. Survivors include his widow: two daughters, Mrs. Shelia Craver of and Pamela Joy Chatham Marshall: four Harleton, brothers.

R. Chatham of Daingerfie'd. Goldman B. Chatham of Bavtown. Horace M.

Chatham of Baytown, and Eugene M. Chatham of Baytown: four sisters. Miss Annie Mae Chatham Marshall, Mrs. Samuel Jumper of Kent and Mrs. Perry Crenchaw of Baytown, Mrs.

Henry Brown of Longivew. ARKANSAS Louis B. Owens Jr. TEXARKANA, Ark. Louis 57, died Sunday afternoon after a sudden illness.

He was employed by Alto Mills as a salesman for the past 8 years. He was a native of Batesville, Ark. and has been a resident of Texarkana most of his life. Survivors are his widow, Mary E. Owens of Texarkana; three daughters, Miss Mary Lou Holman of Shreveport.

Mrs. Suzanne Crain Marshall and Mrs. Ginger Robins of Little Rock. one sister, Mrs. Phillis Butler of Irving, on brother, Charles B.

Owens of Morrilton, Ark. and six grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. today in the East Memorial $95 $160 $15 $25 Matchmate, for Matrimony our wedding ensemble for the bride and groom. Young in heart as sentimental as Lohengrin and lace the diamond pendant (perhaps his gift to her) matches the solitaire while the two nuptial bands for the double ring ceremony are in accord.

Eighteen karat yellow gold. Open Evenings 'til Christmas Small Down Payment, Pay Over A Number of Months Ni Can's Certified Gemologist American Gem Society 410 Milam Downtown Heible Probe Being Slowed By Holidays NATCHITOCHES (AP) Police said the holidays Chief, slowed Dura, investigation of the slaying of Mrs. Michael Heibel beaten at her home and drowned in the bathtub. 'A lot of the people we want to talk to are scattered out right now because of the holidays," Durr said Sunday. "It's going to a little while.

taken body of Mrs. Heibel, 22, was found late Friday night by two Northwestern State College students. They said they went to the house to investigate after Heibel, who was in Shreveport, telephoned to say that he could not get an answer on his telephone calls home and was worried about his wife--who had given birth to their son nine days earlier. Dr. Charles Cook, Natchitoches Parish coroner, said Mrs.

Heibel had been beaten with a wooden instrument and then drowned in the tub. Her infant son was found safe on a bed. Police said the body clothed and there was no indication, of sexual attack. Roman Labor Unit Ends Row the Herndon Funeral Home. scholarships.

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Woolco SWARTHMORE, Pa. (UPDThirty-two men, including the editor of the Harvard Crimson and a basketball star who teaches black history, were selected Sunday for the annual Rhodes scholarships to Oxford University, England. The scholars elected by committees in eight regions represented 23 states, District of Columbia and the province of Ontario Seventeen of the winners represented Ivy League universities. One of scholarships, worth $2,844, went to James M. Fallows of Redlands, who is editor of the Harvard Crimson.

Another went to Heyward A. Dotson, a 6-foot-4 All-America basketball a did ate from Columbia University. Dotson, vice president of Columbia's AfroAmerican Society, also teaches black history in a New York City public school. Scholarships also went to the student body president at Stanford University, Patrick A. Shea of Salt Lake City, Utah, and the editor of the Reed College literary magazine, well J.

Mehlman of "Beverly Hills, Calif. The scholarships, awarded since 1903 under will Cecil Rhodes on the basis of character, leadership, physical vigor and intellect, were announced by Gilmore Stott, deputy, scholarships. American secretary of Minister Sought In Girls' Attack PROVENCAL Funeral services for Mrs. Ronnye Vaye Wyatt, 27, will be held today in the Provencal Pentecostal Church at 11 a.m. Burial will be in the Provencal Cemetery the direction of the First National Home.

Survivors include her husband, Provencal; her mother, Mrs. a K. Anthony Wyatt of Mae Belle Norsworthy of Provencal: one sister, Mrs. Moneta Mobely of New Orleans. William A.

Warwick NEBO William Arastus Warwick, 72, a resident ot Nebo, died late Saturday afternoon after a short illness. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. today in the Shady Grove Church of Nebo with Titus White officiating. Burial will be in the Tidewell Cemetery in Nebo under the direction of the Kinner and Stevens Funeral Home of Jena. Mr.

Warwick was a retired foreman with the Louisiana HighSurvivors include his widow, Emma Janey Warwick of Nebo; one daughter, Mrs. Doris Roberts of Pasadena, three sons, Richard of Jena, Clyde and Lester, both of Nebo; one sister, two Mrs. brothers, Charlie Hudnall of Warwick Nebo; I Mattie Jena Wesley Warwick of Nebo; and nine grandchildren. Joseph I. Dupin Jr.

LAKE CHARLES Funeral, services Louisiana State Policeman Sgt. Joseph Ivy (Sonny) Dupin 43, will be at 11 a.m. today the Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic Church. Burial will be in the Graceland Cemetery under the direction of Hixson Funeral Home. Sgt.

Dupin died early Saturday in an automobile accident west of here on Interstate 10. He has been with the state police 21 years. For past 2 months he was safety education officer of Troop headquartered in Lake Charles. Sgt. Dupin a well known vocalist, making records for the Paula Recording Company.

He had his own program featuring French music every Sunday afternoon on a local radio station. Survivors include his widow; three daughters, Mrs. Linda Goss, Jeri and Liz Dupin, all of West Lake; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dupin Lake Charles; two brothers, William Dupin of Lake Charles and Dupin of Lake Charles; one sister, Mrs.

Edna Douget of Lake Charles. Mrs. Zora Myers LAKE CHARLES Funeral services for Mrs. Zora Myers, 80, were at 2 p.m. Sunday in the St.

Michael and All Angels Episcopal Graceland Church. Cemetery Burial was under in the direction of the Hixson Funeral Home. Myers died Friday. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. G.

L. Carter of Lake and Mrs. H. L. McClelland of Lawtell; two sisters, Mrs.

Eldon Johnson of Roanoke and Mrs. Louise Baronette of Welsh; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Mrs. Hettie Curry LOGANSPORT Mrs. Hettie Whitten Curry, 87, died Saturday at her home after a sudden illness.

She was a member of the Maple Springs Baptist Church and a lifelong resident of this area. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. today in the Bethel Methodist Church with the Rev. Ben Jordan officiating, assisted by the Rev. Ray Moore.

Burial will be in the Bethel Cemetery under the direction of the Price-Caraway Funeral Home. Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Lavada Bryant of Houston: four sons, Bill and Solan Curry of Logansport, Hugh Curry of Lone Star, and Guy Curry of Shreveport; one brother, Spencer Whitten of Longstreet; 22 grandchildren, 43 great-grandchildren and 3 greatgreat-grandchildren. Mrs. Duane Horne SINGER Funeral services for Mrs.

Sally Jeane Horne, 26, of Singer will be held at 2 p.m. today in the Hixson Funeral Home Chapel in DeRidder with the Rev. M. B. Franks officiating.

Burial will be in the Mullan Cemetery. Mrs. Horne had been murdered about 7:15 a.m. Saturday at the grocery store located in about the Pleasant Hill Community 5 miles south of DeRidder on U.S. Highway 171.

Survivors are her husband; her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. L. F. Grant: one sister, Mrs.

R. E. Slayden: her grandmother, Mrs. Maggie Arrington, all of Singer. Mrs.

Willie Craft MERRYVILLE Funeral services for Mrs. Willie Craft, 82, of Merryville will be held at 1 10 a.m. today in the Cooper Baptist Church with Rev. H. Blackman officiating.

Burial will be in the Cooper Cemetery under the direction of Hixson Funeral Home of DeRidder. Mrs. Craft died Saturday evening in the Beauregard Memorial Baptist Hospital. She was a member of the Enon Primitive Baptist Church. Survivors are her husband; two sons.

Gillis Craft of DeRidder and Dean Craft of Merryville: one sister, Mrs. Susie LaBlanc: 10 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Minnie Campbell RUSTON Mrs. Minnie Loflin Campbell, 86, of Dubach died at 6:30 p.m.

Saturday in the Shady Oaks nursing home in Monroe following a lengthy illness, Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. today the Dubach Methodist Church with the Rev. R. D. Deen officiating.

Burial will be in the Dubach Cemetery under the direction of the Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Ruston. Mrs. Campbell was a member of the Eastern Star. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Gertrude Norris and Mrs.

Ruby Campbell, both of Dubach, Mrs. Beatrice Carmichael of Monroe and Mrs. Gladys Cleveland of New Orleans: one sister, Mrs. Edna Baker of Shreveport; 10 grandchildren, 13 and 1 greatgreat TEXAS Rayford B. Scott CENTER, for Tex.

Funeral services Rayford Billy Scott, 25, of Center will be held at 2 p.m. today in the Salem Church in Shelby County with the Rev. Lewis Johnson officiating, assisted by the Rev. Dewey Keith. Burial will be in the Church Cemetery under the direction of the Mangum Funeral Home of Center.

Mr. Scott died qt 10:10 a.m. Sunday in a local hospital after an illness of 4 months. He was a native of Texas. Survivors are his widow, Mrs.

Virginia Scott of Center; two sons, Floyd and Lloyd Scott, both of Center; one daughter, Shirley Scott of Center; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Scott of Center: his grandmother, Mrs. Dollie Scott of Center and Mrs. Martha V.

Koonce of San Augustine; one brother, J. B. Scott of Center; two sisters, Mrs. Jack Lott of San Augustine and Mrs. Verline Langston of Houston.

James A. Childress JOAQUIN, Tex. Funeral services for James Arthur Childress, 68, of Joaquin will be at p.m. today in Jackson Church in Shelby County with the Rev. F.

A. McCann officiating, assisted by the Rev. Bill Sheffield. Burial will be in the Jackson Cemetery under the direction of the Mangum Funeral Home Center. Mr.

Childress died at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in a Center Hospital after a short illness. He was a native and lifelong resident of Shelby County and was a retired farmer. Survivors are his widow, Ethel Childress of Joaquin; one son, Dr. James Childress of Harlington; two daughters, Mrs.

Laura Butcher of Fort Worth and Mrs. Joyce Shahran of Lafayette, one sister, Mrs. Ola Pinkston of Dayton; eight grandchildren. Mrs. S.

Williamson CARTHAGE, Tex. Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Lucy Williamson, 81, of Carthage will be held at 3 p.m. today in the Antioch Baptist with the Rev. Arthur officiating.

Burial will be in the Antioch Cemetery under the direction of the Hawthorn Funeral Home. Mrs. Williamson died in the Panola General Hospital Sunday morning. She was a native of Teneha and had lived in Panola County most of her life. Survivors include two sons, Travis Williamson of Austin, and P.

J. Williamson of Marshall; two daughters, Mrs. Grace Dalton Byerly, 35, of Morgan City was killed in a one-car accident near Morgan City. Mrs. Ellis Pilgreen, 61, of Bernice was killed cartruck collision near Bernice.

32 Selected For Rhodes Scholarships TULSA, Okla. (UPD-The Oklahoma highway patrol Sunday issued an all points bulletin for the Rev. Floyd D. Sutterfield, who Saturday was charged with the first degree rape of two 14-year-old girls at the orphanage he directed. Sutterfield, director of the home for 17 months, came under suspicion when two employes reported to trustees that he made improper advances to young girls.

An investigation followed. The privately endowed orranging in age from infants to phanage, houses 86 children, teen-agers. Pakistanis Fire Across India Border ROME (AP) Unions representing 1.2 million Italian metal workers in private industry reached an accord Sunday for a new with industrialists. The amounted to the contract, biggest development SO far in the labor strife which has torn Italy since September and dealt the economy a severe blow. Labor Minister Carlo DonatCattin was instrumental in working out the settlement with metal workers, the bellwether of Italian industry.

It was similar to that reached for the country's 300,000 metal workers employed by state-owned companies. They signed a contract raising, wages cutting by 15 hours to from 17 per 44 to 40 per week over a three- year CALCUTTA, India (AP) Indian border officials claim one civilian was injured when units of the East Pakistani Rifles fired machine guns across the border Friday night and Saturday morning. The officials said the incidents occurred near the border town of Malda, miles Indian, northwest of Calcutta in Bengal. East Pakistani troops also fired at three other points on the border-Barala, Pannapur and Adananga-they claimed. Because of the tension in the area, Indian border forces are evacuating civilians from border villages, a spokesman said.

In Rawalpindi, a Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman said officials were in touch with the East Pakistan provincial government to discover if such an incident had taken place. Earlier the Pakistan Defense Ministry had described the reports of shooting as incorrect. COWBOY BOOTS Are Sold At PACKARD'S 4038 YOUREE DR..

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