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DAILY PRESS, Nivport News wick Haaiptos, Friday, August 2, 1957 Obituaries Skelton Defends His Role As Father Of Ailing Son Counsel Again Asks Review Of Snider's Death Sentence ROANOKE, Aug. 1 () Justice writ, a few days after Hustings Kennon Whittle of the Virginia'judge M. Ray Doubles of Richmond Supreme Court said today counsel had refused to grant such a writ. Teenagers Vie nine journalism. High school children could write better than that" He answered briskly the questions Messick probably will be asked to again has asked the high tribunal to! review the death sentence of Frank J.

Snider Jr. Snider, 29-year-old Alabama steel-worker, is under death sentence for the rape of a 10-year-old Roanoke girl. Tha latest ni-titinn for writ error was received by Justice Whittle accident after visiting their son at from T. Warren Messick. Roanokei'he State penitentiary in Richmond attorney representing Snider.

Both the State and United States Supreme courts earlier refused to review Sni-der's case. However, on July 9, Federal District Judge Walter E. Hoffman grant ed a writ of habeas corpus, which automatically stayed the scheduled July 1 1 execution of Snider. The execution previously had been stay ed twice. Justice Whittle said the latest appeal is on the contention Snider's sanity is in doubt, and that no written report of a mental examination exists in the trial record.

This is the same contention made when Judge Hoffman granted a habeas corpus at PATRICK SILK Newport News 1957 FRIGIDAIRE WASHER FREE HOME TRIAL! No Plumbing Required Only 25 Inches Wide Rev. Brown The Rev. Beverley Brown, for mer pastor of St. James Methodist episcopal Church, Newport News, died Wednesday in Reidsville. x.

v. He was minister of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church in Reidsville. Survivors are his wife. Mrs.

Lillie Mae Johnson Brown, two sisters, three brothers and several nieces and nephews of Chicago, 111. runerai arrangements are in complete. R. L. Brown The" father of Mrs.

Frank Robert son, manager of Dainty Lady Beauty Shop, Newmarket Shopping Center, Warwick, died yesterday morning at the home of another daughter in Danville. He was R. L. Brown. Funeral arrangements are in complete.

Frank Hooper Names of active and honorary pallbearers for the funeral services for Frank B. Hooper have been announced. Active pallbearers at the services at 8 p. m. at his home, 2206 Oak Newport News, will be E.

H. Shumate, J. A. Maclay, H. S.

Watson, C. C. Epes B. F. Lawson, W.

H. Union, W. S. Parker and D. A.

Holden. Honorary pallbearers will be S. H. Plumer, T. J.

Hundley, P. W. Murray, Dr. Russell Buxton, Dr. R.

T. Pierce, Cary McMurran, J. H. Caffee, L. A.

McMurran, G. K. McMurran, J. T. Seawell, B.

G. Roy, Judge H. G. Smith, W. F.

Peach, W. R. Connor, H. W. Chandler, Alex Connor, Harry Reyner, C.

K. Hutchins. L. U. Noland H.

M. Booth, W. R. Timberlake, F. O.

Blechman, E. Ralph James. W. P. Edmondson, W.

M. Ferguson, Nelson Smith, R. P. Scott, W. H.

Marshall, W. M. Marks, E. N. Islin.

E. K. Phillips, J. B. Woodward, Douglas Braxton.

M. B. Brown, C. D. West, Justice C.

V. Spratley, W. A. Carlton, R. M.

Brown, Grant Hibble, A. B. Williams, D. L. Downing, J.

M. Biggins, H. T. Parker, T. L.

Lanier, W. A. Shell, J. A. Nelms, G.

W. Pierce, and M. C. Weaver. Mrs.

Moser The mother of John B. Davenport, 140 Pochin Place, Hampton, died Wednesday night in a Richmond hospital after a long illness. She was Mrs. Frank Moser, 87, who is also survived by two other sons, Edgar L. Davenport and Henry W.

Davenport, both of Richmond. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Russell Infant The eight-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H.

Russell, 1210 Ferguson Newport News, died at 6 p. m. Thursday at her home. Survivors besides the mother and father are one sister Janice Ann Russell; paternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Russell of N. and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. BJ. Herrell of Hampton.

of interviewer Leslie Bricusse. The famous wry grin only occasionally flitted across his face. His air was faintly defiant Red's son Richard has leukemia, for which there is no certain cure, but the boy and Red still have hopes. Red said: "If I go out through the world and people can be told my son has something wrong with him, maybe someone along the line will have the answer to the problem." Richard, a mop-haired boy with freckles on his sunken'cheeks, did not appear with his father. Nor did Red's wife or his 10-ycar-old daughter Valentina.

Skelton said he had signed more than 180,000 letters, working until in the morning, in an effort to find a cure for his son. Two trunk-loads of letters from sympathizers had been sent back to the United States for scrutiny, he said. Asked if Richards health was a threat to the family's happiness, he said simply: I think it is a challenge, a chal- lenge to courage. Roanoke Pastor Tells Of Threat To Bomb Home ROANOKE, Aug. 1 A Roa noke minister, whose house was vandalized and his church study ransacked last week, said today he had been warned to leave-the city within a week or have his home bombed.

The Rev. Troy Weir, pastor of the Four Square Gospel Church, said the anonymous letter warning rum to move was received while he was attending a youth camp in Georgia: Roanoke police declined com ment other than to say they were continuing their investigation. The letter, the Rev. Mr. weir said, was addressed to the Rev.

A. B. Teffeteller, supervisor of the denomination churches in nine southeastern states. It suggested, the minister said, that he be transferred from Roanoke within two weeks or his house would be bombed. Vandals broke into the Rev.

Mr, Weir's home last week and ripped his clothing and furnishings. It was later discovered by a member of the congregation that his study at the church had been ransacked ano smeared with white paint. The anonymous letter writer ad mitted destroying Weir's possessions, the minister said. The Rev. Mr.

Weir and his wife have been in Roanoke more than two years. He said today they "don't intend to leave. Fairfax Boy, 8, Burned To Death ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 1 () An 8-year-old Fairfax County boy was burned to death this afternoon in a shed in which apparently he had been playing. The bov was Perrv "Buck" Carter, The shed was across the street from his home on, Barbara Road in 'the Windsor Estates subdivision near Francoma, His body, charred almost beyond recognition, was found in the ashes of the destroyed shed by firemen, who did not know until then that anyone was inside.

The boy was the 6on of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Carter. Mrs. Carter was at home at the time and the father was at work at the Fruit Growers Exchange in Alexandria.

Fairfax Detective William Haines speculated that the boy may have been playing with matches and set fire to the shed. Reg. $249.95 WSA 57 Also See Frigidaire's ELECTRIC DRYER 159-95 with Trade i in Home Iff I Dtmonrtndoa Jiff I No CMh Dow Pay Only LONDON, Aug. 1 Red Skel- ton grimly told his newspaper critics and the British people tonight that an actor does not publicize on death." On British TV, Skelton gave a bristling defense of his role as a father concerned over his ailing son. "I do not believe my son is go ing to die," he said.

I believe in God. I believe in the medical profession. I believe that an answer will be found." Skelton had been criticized in some quarters for taking his 9-year- old son Richard on a world tour. The Daily Sketch described his news conference yesterday at the Savoy Hotel as "a nauseating jam boree. Skelton told televiewers: "I have great respect for the press, but naturally you will find certain people who get a rusty nan, dip it in venom and write.

"I thought it (the Sketch com ment) was in bad taste. It was asi- Boiler Explodes At Lynchburg's New GE Plant LYNCHBURG. Aug. 1 A boiler at General Electric new rectifier plant here exploded today, apaprently from an accumulation of natural gas. The blast knocked out windows in the sprawling plant and broke some lights.

Although there were three or four persons in the boiler room at tne time, no one was injured. M. F. Alimansky, general manager, said the explosion was not ex pected to affect operations or em ployment He said the probable cause of the blast was "failure of some part possibly a safety device of the boiler." The manufacturers of the boiler have been notified, he said, and are sending representatives here to in vestigate. "A thorough investigation will be made and we expect to know just what happened in a few days, Alimansky said.

He said "an educated guess" of damage to the building would be between $5,000 and $10,000. The room in which the blast oc curred contained two boilers which were undergoing tests before being accepted for operational purposes. The boiler suffered some damage but the extent had not yet been determined because of the insulation over some of the equipment. Man Found Dead By Son In Bristol! BRISTOL. Auk.

1 () Robert Vernon Horton, 36, owner of a Bristol shoe store, was found dead in his apartment here today. son, Bobby, 15, found the body, sprawled across a 16-gauge shotgun. Dr. F. Talmadge Buchanan, medical examiner, said Horton apparently took his own life, and that he would list the cause of death as a brain injury secondary to a wound in the head.

Buchanan said Horton had suf fered acute depression in recent weeks and was under the care of a psychiatrist. 2 Local Clergymen On Mission Program Two local clergymen are sched uled for the program of the first annual world Missions Week Aug. 5-11 at Eagle Eyrie, launched by the Virginia Baptist Board of Mis sions and Education. Dr. Harold B.

Tillman, pastor of Orcutt Avenue Baptist Church, Newport News, and Dr. John Gar-ber, pastor of Hampton Baptist Church, are among seven personalities besides the keynote speaker, Bible Hour leader and six missionaries to speak. Dr. Tillman will lead an hour's conference each business day on the subject, "The Pastor His Pulpit and His People." Dr. Garber will deliver the ser mon at the closing session Sunday, Aug.

11. Adath Jeshurun Service Tonight Friday evening services will be observed at 6:30 tonight at the Congregation Adath Jeshurun, 28th St and Madison Ave, Newport News. Saturday morning services will be 8:30, junior congregation at 9:45, evening services at 6:45, and following that Sholosh Sudos, given by Irving Cohen in memory of his father. First Sunday service will be at 7:53 a.m.. then Mens Club serv ice at 8:45, followed by breakfast and discussion.

Monday evening: advent of Tisha B'Av. a fast day, commemorating the destruction of both Temples, at 6:55, followed by the reading of the MegUas Eicbo (Lamentations). On Tuesday morning, Tisha B'Av service as 7, Mincha at 12:30 p.m., and evening service, 6:55. Two Are Honored For Farm Works BLACKSBURG. Aug.

1 (ffl Samuel F. McClure of Spottswood and Everett B. Bonham of Chil- howie tonight were named recipients certificates of ment awarded an nually by Virginia Tech for outstanding contributions to agriculture. Tech President Walter S. Newman made the awards here tonight as the annual Institute of Rural Affairs closed out a three-day meeting on the VPI campus.

Nominations for the awards are made by Tech faculty members, with final choice up to the school's board of visitors. McClure is a native of Spotts wood in Augusta County. He owns 1,200 acres of land and operates additional 500 acres on a rental basis. His farm business is based primarily on beef cattle and sheep but two of his farms nave dairies. Bonham is a native of Smyth County and is a well known or-chardist.

The original apple orchard the farm has been expanded to over 1,200 acres. A modern fruit processing plant also is part of his operation. Bonham also has been a leader in the use of modern farming methods. Tonight's closing session of the institute also heard reports on 4-H Club work abroad and from stu dents who participated in the inter national farm youth exchange pro- gram. Woman Is Convicted On Assault Charge A 41-year-old Negro woman drew a conviction yesterday of felonious assault, a fine of $58.75 and 30 days on the Newport News prison farm.

Municipal Court Judge Forrest Wall meted out the punishment, but the sentence withheld pending good behavior and payment of fine to Minnie G. Jones, 440vi-23rd 5t, Newport News. She was found guilty cf attacking Will Moody, Negro, with a lazor blade Saturday. Moody required 25 stitches for cuts ou his neck and arm. Charles L.

Thomas, 46, of 211- 37th Newport News, was con victed of public drunkenness for the tenth time a year. The laborer was fined $37.50 and given 20 days at the prison farm. He said he would appeal the case a higher court for a possibly more favorable decision. Conditions of Thomas' other nine cases: Aug. 6, 1956, Sept.

24, Oct 16, 512.50; Feb 4, 5 and 11. 1957, $27.50 each time plus 30 days in one case, 90 in another, May 29, $37.50 and 20 days; and July 6, $37.50 and 20 days; and July 6, $37.50 and 20 days again. Virginia Reports 2 Cases Of Polio RICHMOND, Aug. 1 MiThe State Health Department said today two cases of polio were reported in Virginia last week. The new cases raised the state toll to 29 compared with 41 this time a year ago.

One of the cases was reported from Franklin County and was non-paralytic, the department said. The other was a paralytic case from Montgomery County. Straight Whiskey SEE how Rug-Free Washing Action launders all fabrics cleaner saves your clothes from needless wear and tear! SEE how Float Over Rinse flues dirt, lint and scum from clothes automatically and there's no filter, tray to empty! SEE how Spin whirls more water out of clothes up to 4 pounds more than many other washers! For King And Queen Roles A King and Queen contest was launched last night by the Garden- chores Civic League to select the most popular junior and senior teenage couples attending the organiza tion weekly teen dances at Magru- der School grounds. Ten couples in -each agf 11 to 14 inclusive and 1. -ugh 18 were nominated to the i by a teen-age committee headed by Mar-lene Mathews.

However, any qualifying couple may enter the contest if their names are submtited by a petition signed by 25 of their peers in either Stuart Gardens or Christopher Shores. At least one member of each team must be a resident of one of the two neighborhoods. Votes selling for a penny apiece will be the means of selection with a bonus 200 votes given to any contestant securing a new member for the League. Money derived from the voting will go toward defraying expenses of equipment purchased for the dances. Voting will close at 9 p.m.

Aug. 29 and the king and queen of each division will be crowned at the Sept 5 dance. Voting reports will be issued at each dance between now and poll closing time. Junior couples nominated last night were: Diane McKay and Terry Smith, Peggy Markhara and Steve Spark-man. Judy Harrison and Robert Fitzgerald, Judy Hawley and Lehman Smith, Tina Burroughs and John Taylor, Pat Taylor and Horace Underwood, Brenda Veasey and Donald King, Betty Overman and Jimmy Woody, Jane McFalkin and Margaret Wilkinson and Donald Tugwell.

Senior couples named were: Judy Leake and Dan Rouse, La-Rhue Nettles and Johnny Mitchell, Sandra Taylor and Buck Hart, Jane Hoffman and Bobby Derr, Shirley Smith and Blain Cram, Sally Scog- gins and Jimmy Mures. Carol Hol-Ioway and Ronnie Kennedy, Lolly Wynn and Kenny Roberts. Kitty Hawley and Brian Lynch and Eve lyn jerandBucky Keller. Temporary Shift To Channel 13 Denied To WVEC WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 WV-The communications commission today denied competing applications by UHF station WTOV TV, Portsmouth, and WVEC-TV, Hamp ton, for temporary authority to shift operations to VHP Channel 13, as signed to the area earlier this year.

The UHF outlets sought to use the new channel while FCC was considering applications by them and others for regular operation on Channel 13. The commission similarly denied a petition by UHF station KTAG- TV, Lake Charles, for a tempo-' rary shift to VHF Channel 3, recent ly assigned -to the Lafayette-Lake Charles area. KTAG-TV is applying for regular use of the VHF chaa nel, for which are two other ap plicants. Police Hold Two On Liquor Counts Police raiders got the willies last night. Willie Cannichael.

44, 457W-29th was arrested in front of his home as he sat in the driver's seat of a station wagon containing 10 gallons of what police charged was illegal whisky. Police said the vehicle will be held for confiscation proceedings in the event of a successful prosecution of the ABC charges leveled at the time of arrest. Willie B. Jones, 39, 617Vi-21st was arrested at that address and similar charges of possessing illegal liquor were placed against him. Arresting officers were: Lt.

Grover C. Butler Jr, Sgt. Dewey C. Shanz and Patrolmen Thomas E. Hardisty and ABC Inspector G.

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That story was spread widely, and was believed by many, if not most, of those tojEflom it was told. Scientists, however, have failed to confirm the tale. The story grew from a few observations. Burrowing owls often settle at the edges of colonies, or villages, used by prairie dogs. In that case the owls occupy deserted holes.

Prairie docs, by the way, do tot belong to the dog family. They litter barking noises or "yaps," but are closer to ordinary squirrels than to dogs. Often they are called "ground squirrels." Being of small size, prairie dogs may fall victim to eagles and coyotes. Even the little burrowing owls attack and capture young prairie dogs. Adult prairie dogs are too large to be eaten by burrowing owls, and for this reason are let alone.

Rattlesnakes crawl about and look for young prairie dogs. Meanwhile burrowing owls look for small snakes. Seldom, if ever, does a prairie dog attack a full-grown rattler. Q. It is true that burrowing owls can see well in the daytime? A.

Yes. Tests have indicated that they can see about as well in broad daylight as can most birds. In this Owls avoid full -grown prairie 1 dogs, but prey on young ones. way they differ from other other members of the owl family. Sometimes these little owls look for food in the daytime, but more often they wait until after sunset.

In addition to young snakes and young prairie dogs, they eat lizards, also grasshoppers and other insects. Hilda (Ray For Nature section of your tcrapbook. "Africa's People and Customs" is another leaflet Uncle Ray offers free to his readers. Just send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Uncle Ray in case of the Daily Press for your copy. Warwick Zoning Board Will Hear Six Applications Warwick board of zoning appeals has six applications scheduled for public hearing at a meeting to be held at 5 p.

m. Aug. 20, it was an- nounced yesterday by Walter L. Owens, zoning administrator. The following applications have been received: Clifford S.

Jones, owner of lots at 625 North requests re-zoning R-2 to C-2 to permit expansion of a tourist court George D. Schleiger, owner of acreage near Sedgefield and Warwick Village, asks rezoning from R-2 to C-2 to construct a motel. Mason-Yates Construction Company, owners of acreage ask rezoning M-l to T-l of a parcel 20 by 40 feet on the rear of an office building at 1048 Warwick Road to park one office trailer. John H. and Alice Mosby own- ers-of acreage located-on the north side of Mulberry Island Road about '690 feet west of Fort Eustis ask rezoning M-l to T-l to park one trailer.

L. B. Weber, owner of lots in Shore Park subdivision on the west aide of Lucas Creek Road, asks rezoning A-l to R-l. R. Mallory, owner of .75 of an acre at the southeast corner of Orcutt Ave.

and Briarfield Road, requests rezoning R-2 to C-l to make an existing building conform and to permit expansion of a build-in orretailpu rpose s. Piedmont Names Guin As Manager Douglas D. Guin, who formerly served as station manager for Piedmont Airlines at Charlottes' ville Municipal Airport, has been named station manager for the airlines at Patrick: Henry Airport. Guin succeeded Richard Mahan at PHA. The latter was transfer red to the Charlottesville airport to fill Gum position there.

A native of Southern Pines, N. Guinn has been associated with Piedmont Airlines since March 1, 1949. He formerly served at station manager at Lynchburg, Beckley, W. Charlotte, N. C.

and Southern Pines airports. Guin, his wife, Jane, and their seven-year-old son, Norman, reside at 635 Sedfield Drive, Warwick. Mahn served for two years as rtation manager for Piedmont Air lines at PHA. He assumed that position June 1, 1955, succeeding Robert JJpscomD, wno was transferred to Wilmington, N. C.

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