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Wounded, Classified GA 3-4511 Sentinel Saturday, June 21, 1969 Obituaries MR. GEORGE W. CRAW- Ocala, and two granddeughFORD, 79, Orlando, died Fri- ters. day. Roberts Funeral Home, He was born in Waycross, Ocala.

and had been a resident of Orlando for 20 years. MR. ELI A. LIGHTSEY, 76, Survivors: daughter, Mrs. Ocala, died Thursday.

Marie Ardisina, Tampa; A native Trenton, he had lando, Mrs. Bessie Nicholson, years. He Ocala, owner and sisters, Mrs. John Kern, Or- been an resident four Tampa, Mrs. Carry Prine, operator of a peanut sheller Lakeland; Crawford, Dover; brother, one Warren grand- mill member in Trenton.

Primitive He was a child and one great grand- tist Church. of the Bapchild. Survivors: sisters, William A. Tomkins Funer- Wayne Metcalf, Ocala, Mrs. al Home, Ocoee.

Alice Thomas, Dade City, Mrs. C. L. Waters, Alachua, MR. GEORGE JAMES Mc- Mrs.

C. 0. Dampier, OkMUNN, 62, 1316 Hartley lawaha and Mrs. W. D.

Deltona, died Thursday. Bradley, Branford. native of Wilmerding, Roberts Funeral Home, Mr. McMunn came here 16 Ocala. months ago from McKeesport, Pa.

He was a railroad man MR. JOSEPH JAMES and a member of Masonic FRANKLIN HALFACER, 58, Lodge 765. South Lake Wales, died ThursSurviors: widow, Florence day following a sudden illLaVaughn McMunn, Deltona; ness. son, George J. Greens- A native of Carpendale, burg, brother, William he came to Lake Wales one New York City; and three month ago from Avon Park grandchildren.

where he was owner of a Fairchild Funeral Home mobile trailer park. Survivors: widow, Mrs. LuMASTER DENNIS DE- cille, Lake Wales; daughters, WAYNE HENSLEY, infant Mrs. Phyllis Sutton and Mrs. son of Mr.

and Mrs. Fred C. Sue Carol Settle, MadisonHensley, Sorrento, died Thursday. ville, son, John William, Sorrento, died Thursday. He was born Eustis.

Survivors other than parents: brother, Delta sisters, Sharon Ann, Eva Jessie all of Sorrento; grandmother, Mrs. Monroe Winnett, Sparta, Tenn. Bray- Altman Funeral Home, Apopka. DONALD MOSHER, 53, Highway 17-92, Fern Park, died June 19 in Gainesville. A meat wholesaler, Mr.

Mosher came here 12 years ago from his native Maine. He was a Protestant and a member of Winter Park Country Club. Survivors: widow, Vera; daughter, Mrs. June Cloud, Bangor, brothers, Alton, Raymond, Emil, all of Wilton, sister, Mrs. Doris Mowatt, Farmington, and one grandchild.

Garden Chapel Home for Funerals. MR. FRANK ABERTON BAKER, 88, Votaw Road, Apopka, died Friday. Born in Springport, he moved to the Apopka area 24 years ago from Hillsdale, Mich. He was a retired carpenter.

Survivors: sons, Lawrence Baker, Apopka, and Ray Bowers, Jackson, Mrs. Maude Dillingham, Eaton Rapids, Mich. Bray- -Altman Funeral Home, Apopka. MRS. MINNIE GRIFFIN, 80, of Ocala, died Thursday.

A resident of 30 years, she moved there from North Carolina and was a Baptist. Survivors: sons, Billy Sigmon, Bobby Sigmon, both of Ocala, Odell Lamberth, Gainesville; daughter, Mrs. Jean Lamberth, Tampa; brother, Brown, Statesville, 'N. and nine grandchildren. Roberts Funeral Home, Ocala.

MR. BENJAMIN GEORGE, 62, Sunset Drive, Tavares, died Thursday. A native of Branford, had lived in Tavares for five years after moving from Evansville, Ind. He was a retired manager for plumbing supplies, a member of the Tavares Recreation Association. Survivors: widow, Mrs.

Rosa Lee, Tavares; brothers, Robert, Indianapolis, Herbert, Chicago, sisters, Mrs. Edith Skelton, Mt.Prospect, Mrs. Carolyn Balding, Pasadena, and Mrs. Eleanor Meyer, Richmond, Va. Steverson Funeral Home, Tavares.

Dora, died Friday. A native Bay City, he moved to Mount Dora 23 years ago. He was a retired coach and athletic director of Bay City Schools, a member of the Presbyterian Church of Mount Clemens, a veteran of World War secretary of Mount Dora Kiwanis Club. Survivors: widow, Elizabeth son, Dwight, Bay City; daughters, Mrs. Scott Bewcos, Covina, Mrs.

Betty Fellows, Tampa; sister, Mrs. E. R. Phillips, Mount Dora. eh Funeral Home, Mount Dora.

MR. WALTER A. OLSEN, 76, 1601 Summit Street, Mount MR. IRA DAVID COOPER, 73, Citra, died Thursday. He moved to Citra 17 years ago from Wellborn and was a member of the Citra Baptist Church.

Survivors: widow, Lula; sons, Clarence and C. Tifton, and Bennie, Sparks, daughters, Mrs. Roas Lovett, Mrs. Betty Tucker and Mrs. Dovey Prichett, all of Tifton, Mrs.

Lois V. Layton and Mrs. Christine Ross, Tifton; sister, Lena Cooper, Citra, 30 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Roberts Funeral Home, Ocala. MR.

HAROLD T. SNYDER, 52, Sunset Harbor, died Thurs- day in Gainesville. A native of Dornsife, he came to Marion County years ago. He was a member of United Commercial Travelers Association, the Masonic Lodge of Belleview and St. Johns Lutheran Church, Ocala.

Survivors: widow, Edith; sons, David and Larry, Sunset Harbor; daughter, Mrs. Diane Atkinson, Ocala; sisters, Mrs. Edna Crissinger, Dornsife, and Mrs. Tonnie Roberts, Sunset Harbor; brother, Melvin, Soviet-Czech Summit Conference Delayed Wife Seeks News The Red Cross messaged Vietnam Friday asking information on the condition of a 20-year-old Apopka serviceman seriously wounded in action, while the soldier's wife, Linda, expects the couple's second child at any moment. Pfc.

Robert K. Wittman received a penetrating stomach wound May 15 while on combat operations. His mother, Mrs. PFC. WITTMAN Wounded Wade Kester, P.

O. Box 219, Apopka, said Friday she has received numerous telegrams, all with the identical message stating her son is seriously ill. AFTER making numerous efforts to obtain help from Sen. Edward Gurney, Sen. Edward Kennedy and Rep.

Lou Frey, she turned to The Sentinel for help. The Sentinel informed Elizabeth Henson, a Red Cross case worker serving military families, who sent through Washington direct request 1 to Red Cross field workers in Vietnam late Friday, "OUR REQUEST will ask for information from the doctor treating the soldier and often will bring more detailed reports from the field," said Mrs. Henson. IN WITTMAN'S case the standard information has been "the same, word for word," according to his family. "'Additional information indicates he is in serious condition," has been the content of no less than seven telegrams from the Army.

The family, through the telegrams, was aware only of the nature of Wittman's injury. A letter received by his wife Wednesday told of a second operation to repair abdominal wounds. "We hadn't been told a word about any operations," said Mrs. Kester in response to Wittman's letter. MRS.

KESTER said, "All we want to know is the extent of his injuries and when he can come home." The soldier, a graduate of Apopka High School, is serving with the 2116th Infantry Rangers, Company D. His father, Clarence H. Wittman, 626 Lerla Drive, Mount Plymouth, expressed equal concern over his son's condition. The boy's step-father, Wade Kester, spent four years in Vietnam as a civilian worker on naval operations. Five-Year-Old Walks Off Sandbar, Drowns A five-year-old Orlando gone to the lake with girl who drowned in Lake family members.

late She was placed on the Starling Thursday sandbar a short distance afternoon apparently from shore while her comtoddled off a submerged panions played with the sandbar and stepped into family dog in shallow water over her head. water over the sandbar. Angelia F. Andrews, She later was discovered daughter of Mrs. Geraldine missing and members of Andrews, 4415 Me a do w- the family began a search brook Road, reportedly of the lake and remained at was with four relatives, the scene until her body ages 15 to 20, when the was located by Orange mishap occurred.

County Sheriff's deputies and men from the Pine THE CHILD was in the Hills Fire Department. care of her grandmother, Mrs. Mary Ogborn, and had WDBO Using CofC Hears Rail Woes Freight service will have to constitute the backbone of the railroad business, Florida East Coast Railroad president Winfred Thornton told the Winter Park Chamber of Commerce Friday. Speaking to the chamber's Congressional Action Committee, Thornton said airplanes and better roads are responsible for the rapid reduction of rail passenger service. UNIONS also were attacked by Thornton, who said they had acquired too much power through National Labor Relations Board rulings that went beyond the intent of Congress in labor laws.

The railroad executive said businessmen must band together to make their voices heard and stand against the unions. Selig J. Seligman, ABC Vice-Pres. Dies HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Selig J. Seligman, independent motion picture producer, author and former vice president of the American Broadcasting died Friday at his home of a heart attack.

He was 51. Goofy Time Apollo 10 astronauts and wives had a 'Goofy' time Thursday when they visited Disneyland at Anaheim, Calif. Mrs. Eugene Cernan and daughter, Theresa Dawn, six, immediately got acquainted with Goofy. Also visiting Disneyland were Mrs.

Thomas Stafford and children, Dionne, 14, and Karen, 12, and Mrs. John Young and Sandy, 12, and John, 10. Highlight of the day was a ride on the Flight to 1 the Great For Whole Family The screen version of Lionel Bart's stage musical, which was freely adapted from Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist" should delight the entire family. The picture, which opened at Wometco's Park East Friday, has a perfectly marvelous, emminently hummable score with such numbers as "Food, Glorious 0,0 "Where Is "Who Will Buy," and the torchy "As Long as He Needs Me." And the adventurous young Oliver as portrayed by winsome little Mark Lester should appeal to every boy, not to mention mothers whose hearts will be touched by his predicaments in boisterous Nineteenth Century London. DIRECTOR Carol Reed has opened up the stage version to show the brawling, lusty street life of both underworld and fashion able London, and choreographer Onna White turns the tradespeople on the streets into dancers at every opportunity.

It is, of course, a far cry from the horrors of the poor and orphans in the workhouses and slums Dickens was excoriating in his early muckraking novel. The wily Fagin who runs the school for young pickpockets into which Oliver falls is a delightful villain in Ron Moody's Academy Award nomination-winning performance. He kicks up his heels with gusto in such numbers as "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two" and "Reviewing the Situation." THE REALLY evil Bill SUMNER RAND SUMNER RAND Sikes of Oliver Reed could conceivably frighten really young patrons, and his death at the end is certainly a good deal more dramatic than it was on stage. Shani Wall is warm and appealing as his fancy and sings "As Long Ag He Needs Me" beautifully. There's even a monstrous looking mutt for the animal lovers to cheer who finally leads the police to Bill's hideaway.

The young workhouse and Fagin's gang are engaging as can be as they clamor for food without director Reed succumbing to the merely cute. Jack Wild's turned-up nose, freckles and thatch of black hair gives him a just-right impish quality for The Artful Dodger who befriends Oliver. THE PICTURE is lavishly mounted and photographed in subdued colors and it is easy to see why it got the best picture of the year and five other academy awards. There was some difficulty in the sound track and focus during the first few reels but it was quickly corrected. It should be at the Park East a long, long time.

Financier Murchison Dies At 74 In Texas ATHENS, Tex. (UPI)Clinton Williams "Clint" Murchison a small town banker's son who trapped skunks and coons as a schoolboy to get a start and wound up with a fortune estimated at halfa-billion dollars, died Friday in a hospital. Murchison was 74. He had been ill for several years, living in his Glad Oaks ranch home at Athens, 75 miles southeast of Dallas. He entered Henderson County Memorial Hospital earlier in the week and died at 4:35 a.m.

HIS INTERESTS includ- the small society by Brickman SHALL WE JOIN THE MASTER RACE? 00 BRIcKMAN PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (Reuters) A summit conference between Czechoslovak and Soviet leaders in Moscow may be postponed a second time and may not take place until September, informed sources said here Friday. News of the meeting, believed to have been scheduled for June 7 and then again for sometime during the next two weeks, came as the Czechoslovak party's ruling presidium met in a session which was expected to endorse the stand party leader Gustav Husak took at the world summit conference in Moscow. HUSAK AT the conference that ended this week 'Kooks' Get Blame For Desertions WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Army's personnel chief blames men in revolt against authority--for an increase of more than 80 per cent in the desertion rate since 1966-67. But in spite of the rise in desertion, Lt. Gen.

A. O. Connor said troop morale in Vietnam was "fabulous" and "the vast majority" of young Americans were "doing their job and doing it beautifully." CONNOR APPEARED March 11 before a House a priations subcomp.p mittee. His testimony was made public Friday. Rep.

William E. Minshall, Ohio, questioned Connor closely about the desertion rate, which averaged 3.3 per thousand soldiers in the period between July 1 and Nov. 30, 1968. This was 37.5 per cent higher than the 2.4 monthly rate in the preceding 1 12 months and 83.3 per cent higher than the year before that. MINSHALL WANTED to know why.

"We are getting more kooks into the Army, for one thing," the general replied. "We are getting more young men who are coming in undisciplined, the product of a society that trains them to resist authority." Minshall: "Does your Army training overcome this? It would seem that it should." CONNOR: "MOST of the desertions take place very early in the man's training. We do not experience this sort of thing in the trained soldier to any great ex- tent." The monthly figures translated to yearly desertions of 21.4 per thousand in 1966-67; 29.1 in 1967-68; and an indicated total of 39.6 for 1968-69. Referring to the 29.1 figure, Connor said it was "much higher than we would like to see it," and told Minshall the Army was using training films to show rookie soldiers "the consequences of desertion." Gibraltar Voting Set GIBRALTAR (Reuters) Gibraltar will hold a general election July 30 under its new constitution that maintains the colony's links with Britain, it was announced Friday. Chief minister for the colony, Sir Joshua Hassan, said the legislative council would be dissolved June 27 to begin the campaign for the election.

UNDER THE constitution, published May 30, the legislative council will be replaced by a house of assembly with 15 elected members. governor of the rock adjoining Spain will retain direct responsibility for defense, external affairs and internal security. A Announcement of the election date came 11 days after Spain closed off the last land link at the border post of La Linea, preventing about 4,600 Spanish workers an important part of Gibraltar's labor force from going to their iobs in the colony. opposed any discussion of the Warsaw pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. But he has not yet justified the intervention as a necessary action to prevent counterrevolutionary forces from taking over in Czechoslovakia.

The party leader and a large group of delegates had been believed preparing to leave for talks with the Kremlin within two weeks. But informed sources said Friday, night it appeared as though the trip may be postponed until after a scheduled meeting of the Soviet Central committee and that this in turn would mean a delay until September when summer holidays ended. The original date for the summit-the first formal bilateral talks since Husak took over from liberal party leader Alexander Dubcek in April was June 7 during the world Communist party meeting, according to the sources. ville, son, John William, U.S. Air Force, Japan.

J. H. Evans Funeral Home, Lake Wales. Funeral Notices BAKER, MR. FRANK ABERTON Funeral services for Mr.

Frank Aberton Baker, age 88, of Votaw Apopka, who died Friday, will be held Saturday 3:00 p.m. at Bray Altman Chapel in Apopka, Rev. Joe Lallathin of the Faith Temple Baptist Church in Apopka will officiate. Interment will follow In Highland Memory Gardens. BrayAltman Funeral Home, Apopka, in charge of arrangements.

CRAWFORD, MR. GEORGE W. Funeral services for Mr. George W. Crawford, 79, of Orlando who died Friday will be held at 11 Monday at the Tomkins Funeral Home Chapel with the Reverend Leonard Branton officiating.

Interment will be in the Lake Hill Cemetery, Tompkins Funeral Orlo Home, Vista. Ocoee, Wm. is in charge of arrangements. GEORGE, MR. BENJAMIN Funeral services for Mr.

Baniamin George, 62, Sunset Driver. Tavares, who died Thursday, will be held at Chapel p.m. Sunday in Steverson Funeral with the Joseph Porter, pastor of Union Congregational Church of Tavares, officiating. Interment will follow in Tavares Cemetery. Friends may call at the Steverson Funeral Home between 5 and 9 p.m.

Saturday to pay their respects, Steverson Funeral Home, Tavares, is in charge. HENSLEY, MASTER DENNIS WAYNE Funeral services for Master Dennis Dewayne Hensley, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hensley of Sorrento, will be held Saturday at 10:00 a.m. at Sorrento Cemetery, Bray Altman Funeral Home, Apopka, in charge of arrangements.

KINNON, MRS. HARRIET MAE Funeral services for Mrs. Harriet Mae Kinnon, 84, 107 S. Buena Vista, who died Wednesday, will be held Saturday af 2:00 P.M. in the Lake Hill Baptist Church with the Rev.

Leonard Branton officiatina, the interment will follow in Lake Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Kinnon. formerly resident of Seville. Fla.

was member of Lake Hill Baptist Church. She is survived by daughters: Mrs. Cecil Spivey, Axson, Mrs. Carolyn. Rawlins, Stuart, son: Carlos Kinnon, Bostwick, thirteen grandchildren and twenty-three great-grandchildren.

The services are under the direction of the Carey Hand Chapel, Franklin-Cole Funeral Directors, 36 W. Pine Street. STEVENS, ALEXANDER SR. Funeral services for Mr. Alexander C.

343 N. Phelps Avenue, Winter who died Thursday, will be held Saturday at 3:00 P.M. in the Chapel of Cox-Parker Funeral Home with the Rev. Jacob C. Martinson officiating, Interment will be at a later Visiting hours for friends will be Friday from 7:00 P.M.

until 9:00 P.M., and Saturday from 9:00 A.M. until service time. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Judy Stevens, son, Alexander C. Stevens, New Orleans, daughter, Mrs.

Jane Flanders, Mountain Lake, N. 10 grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. Cox-Parker Funeral Home is in charge. HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOUNG ROSEBUD! JOHN SCHARF Thank you for calling to US from heaven darling. We are so happy vou made it.

We lust knew you would. See you after our last setting sun, when God may tell US also "Well Done. Nanny, and your loved ones Silent Star Dies SANTA MONICA, Calif. (UPI) -Natalie Talmadge, a silent screen star in the 1920s and one of the three glamorous Talmadge sisters, died Thursday night in Santa Monica hospital. Miss Talmadge was married to the late screen comedian Buster Keaton.

Their union ended in a stormy divorce with Miss Talmadge winning custody of their two sons. SHE APPEARED on the screen for a much briefer time and was not so famous as sisters Constance and Norma Talmadge, two of the greats era. Norma Talmadge was married to movie mogul Joseph Schenck, comedian George Jessel and Las Vegas physician Carvel James. Norma died in 1957. The third sister, Constance, survives.

Beverly Knight Improving SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Beverly Knight, critically injured daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Knight of the Knight newspapers was in somewhat improved condition Friday in the intensive care unit of the university medical center here. The 18-year-old girl was transferred late Thursday in a chartered airplane from St.

Johns Hospital in Jackson, Wyo. Her parents accompanied her. Miss Knight, injured June 13 in a 200-foot slide down loose shale in Yellowstone National Park, has been unconscious since the accident. Hunger Toll In Biafra 1.5 Million GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) An estimated 1.5 million people have died of hunger in Biafra since the war began two years ago, according to a report made public Friday. The report, concerned mainly with the agricultural situation in the breakaway state, was specially prepared for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

A THREE-MAN team, which spent a week in Biafra in May to prepare the report, said young people were hiding in the bush to avoid the draft. They added, "we were told that the Biafrans, after the recapture of Owerri, did not report a single Nigerian prisoner, for reasons which can well be imagined." The experts, one each from Dahomey, Liberia and Switzerland, cautioned that they had neither the means nor the time to check on such comments, which were outside the scope of their mission, but "they do not sound just like gossip or casual remarks." New Tower WDBO-TV, Channel 6, Orlando, is now telecasting from the new antenna and transmitter facility 14 miles east of Orlando. Program tests, authorized by the Federal Communications Commission, began Friday. The highest structure in the state, the new antenna is 1,484 feet above ground, is almost two and one-half times taller than the station's old facility, on the west side of Orlando and is 565. feet taller than the Eiffel Tower and 229 feet taller than the Empire State Building.

The tower was built on a joint effort by Channel 6 and WFTV-TV, Channel 9, Orlando. Channel 9 will switch to the jointly owned site in September. Herlong Becomes Trustee For ACA Appointment of former Democratic Congr. A. Sydney Herlong of Leesburg to the board of trustees of Americans for Constitutional Action (ACA) was announced in Washington Friday night.

The ACA, nationwide nonpartisan political action organization, expanded its 32 with addition of board of trustees, from 27 to Herlong and four other members. THEY ALSO reported corruption among Biafrant officials and petty friction between the three main relief agencies, each of which insisted on "raising its own flag." The World Council of Churches, the Roman Catholic organization Caritas and the ICRC all operate in Biafra. Dietrich Wins Libel Damages ed the Martha Washington Candy Company, Delhi Oil Atlantic Life Insurance Co. of Richmond, The Henry Holt Publishing a fishing tackle company, chemical companies, ranches, Field and Stream magazine and many other businesses. With his sons, C.

W. Murchison and John Dabney Murchison, he once won control of the Alleghany which owned a majority of New York Central Railroad stock and substantial shares of Baltimore Ohio and souri Pacific Railroads. SID RICHARDSON, a Fort Worth multi- millionaire who died about 10 years ago, also was in on the deal. The Murchisons and Richardson later sold most of the railroad stock. When Murchison was in his business prime, he owned three or four airplanes in which he flew about the world.

He entertained such visitors as the Duke of Windsor and the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy at an ranch in Mexico. Murchison's son, Clint owns the Dallas Cowboys professional football team. PARIS (Reuters) Marlene Dietrich Friday was awarded libel damages of 20,000 francs ($4,000) against best selling French novelist Roger Peyrefitte.

A Paris court found Peyrefitte libelled the movie star and singer in his book Les Americains" (The Americans) and also fined him 3,000 francs His publishers, Flammarion, were fined 2,000 francs U.S. Population Up One Per Cent WASHINGTON (UPI) The Census Bureau said Friday the U.S. population grew by 1 per cent in the year between May 1, 1968 and May 1, 1969. It said the population at the end of last May was 201,593,000. The one year increase was 2,057,000.

Since April 1, 1960, the bureau said, the U.S. population has grown by 22.3 million persons, or 12.4 per cent. Colonial funeral Home 2701 CONWAY ROAD PHONE 425-2561 ROBERT E. RAMSDELL. OWNER Fairchild FUNERAL HOME 301 IVANHOE BLVD.

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