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Page2A I RECALLS RODEO CAREEK WITH PAWNEE BILL Otto Consolvo, Owner Of Crooked Creek Corral 4 Rat Races' Over For Old Horse Trader, Stone Man Charged An 18-year-old Denton man is being held in Denton County jai! without bond on charges that he murdered Shirley Kimbrough Williams March 13. Charged in Williams' death is Vine Cecil Johnson of 516 E. Mill. He was arrested Saturday aftei police received a tip from an informant. At the time of his arrest, Johnson was out on bail on a felony theft charge.

Charges of murder WKh were filed against Johnson in Justice of the Peace E. G. McCombs' court in Lewisville. Officers said Johnson gave them a written statement in connection with the slaying. Williams was killed with By JULIUS TROTTER FLOWER MOUND Stone mason Otto Consolvo, 73, returned to the yearning of his youth a love of horses and western lore for a new life style 20 years ago.

Today, he operates Crooked Creek Coral and Store, trading horses and helping out his neighbors. Once president of Southern Marble which built the Dallas Mercantile National Bank mural before World War II, he- is optimistic about Flower Mound happenings. Flower Mound was designated a new town district Dec. 31, 1970 under the 1968 New Communities Act. New town dev resulting from economic impact of the new Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, is valued at $400 million.

"I figure Doc Wilkerson has given time and money for planned 4ommunity-, growth and I have no gripes," in answer to Mayor William "wil- 1 Person's query -why Consolvo didn't attend city council meetings. Running away from Ms Tulsa, home in 1916, Consolvo joined the Buffalo-Bill 101 Wild West Show. The had 'been, stranded in Europe and reorganized with Pawnee Bill. The Consolvo re- members Buffalo Bill atop his white stallion with a smile. In the 1920's, Consolvo made the big and little rodeo circuits before picking up his father's stone masonry trade.

He isn't sure why the western lore and horse love yearning is still with him. His big Irish face beams a smile as he recalls with pride his Castellian Spanish ancestors migrating to Virginia. and my mother was Irish." Twenty years ago Flower Mound was a mudhole of country roads with only the Denton Creek bridge crossing to Grapevine. High powered automobiles today speed over a new net- zork of ann-to-market roadways and over the Grapevine Dam road. There are still horse lovers.

Flower Mound has a large population of pleasure horses and people admrers. "Folks don't, know much about them and buy without solid horse sense at sales and from strangers." Horse traders today, however are more honest than a few years ago when a favorite practice was to place a sponge up a "plug's" nose to trick a sucker buyer. Consolvo said. Consolvo still rides and gives his advice freely to trusting neighbors. Sometimes'-he plays the role of'a-'good Samaritan.

Two weeks ago one motorist coasted up to Consolvo's lone gas pump no money or check book. Consolvo filled the gas tank of the big car. A few days later, the owner returned to pay his bill. "I feel a little better about helping folks," Consolvo said in reference to the man's word and' bond. Married 50 years, Consolvo and his Cherokee Indian wife, enjoy their three grandchildren and live a retiring life.

Folks drop by the little store for frequent chats around the old pot bellied stove, which is usually burning even on a warm spring day. It was 20 years ago when Consolvo gave up the "rat races" for a life suited to his dream. More and more folks now stream to Flower Mound and the green grasslands and blue sMes. A friend, 'another oldtimer Ihnfielt, remembers the" community 40 years back. Then there were farms and a handfull of country folk.

'Tm for whatever progress is good people," Consolvo said as he rocked impatiently in his leather backed rocker, a juicy sandwich in his hand and an eye on the big stove. AREA SCHOOLS Pilot Point Hears Five Plans Harold Pemberton, Ed Forbis and GorSon Smotherman have been named president of their respective school boards in area towns. if PILOT POINT Gordon for the high school building project, presented five possible plans to the School "Board Tuesday night for consideration. 1 The board nan-owed the list! down to two plans for further study. The board was reorganized i following this month's with Harold Pemberton chosen president of the board; Weldon Price, president; and David Strittmatter, secretary.

man was named president and Charles Looper secretary of the Aubrey School Board Tuesday night after election results were canvassed. Regular monthly business will be transacted at a called meeting next Tuesday. DECATUR Ed Forbis has been named president of the Decatur School Board, to serve with Dr. W. M.

Lewis, vice president, and Norman Stevens, secretary. 3 a.m. Saturday, March 13 Officers said a .22 caliber pistol was aparenily used in the shooting. But police said they have recovered what is thought to be the murder weapon, a .22 caliber rifle, and a television -which was believed to have been stolen at the time of the alleged murder. Williams was found dead at his.

2221 Stella St. residence by BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) For several hours a thousand British troops battled Protestants trying to firebomb a Roman Catholic church Tuesday night in the bloodiest rioting in Northern Ireland in weeks. Four soldiers were set ablaze by Molotov cocktails at the height of the fight, but other troops doused the flames before they suffered serious injury. The violence was triggered when a 12-year-old Protestant, Harry Martin, was felled by a burst of automatic fire as a Protestant parade wound up four days of Easter demonstrations that until then had been pc.aceful.' Martin was either in the parade or watching it when some of the 3,000 young marchers bioke through a protective po- licp cordon around a Catholic section. The Protestants waved Union Jacks, the Catholic waved the Irish Republic's tricolor; then the burst of firing came, wounding young Martin and grazing three adults.

A bullet was removed from the child's thigh and he was re- But an angry crowd of Protestants hour gathered attacked and after an St. Matthew's church, which the Protestants charge is a sanctuary and snipers' post for the terrorist Irish Republican Army. The British troops threw up barriers of barbed wire and armor to keep pack the mobs. The Protestants attacked with gasoline bombs, concrete slabs, bottles, rocks and iron. When the mob was finally put to flight, at least 13 civilians aitd several soldiers had been ported in satisfactory condition, injured, and 27 persons had been arrested.

Several missiles hit the church but caused little damage. A shop was set afire and windows of other stores were slashed and their contents street in the roadway. An army water cannon put out the blaze, and the troops fired several rounds of rubber bullets. It was the first serious encounter between the troops and the Protestants since last October. Recently the trouble has been between the British and IRA extremists fighting to reunite Ireland.

Deaths Walter Cummings FOKT services WORTH for Walter Funeral M. Cummings, 75, are pending in the Shannon Funeral Home of Fort a friend who had stopped to Worth. take him to a church meeting. City Detectives Don Wast and Bill Cummings, armed with a a a arrested Johnson Saturday at Ms place of em- pi eyment, according to Capt. Hugh Lynch of the Denton Police Department.

Capt. Lynch said Johnson was carried before Judge McCombs who informed defendant of his rights. ARGYLE A scheduled meeting of the Argyle School Board was not held Tuesday night, when a quorum was not AUBREY Gordon Smother-1 present. Courthouse Doors Are Made Safer To get into the Denton County Courthouse a person must now have pull. Before, one could push his way in, but not any more.

The doors on the courthouse were put in "backwards" according to a spokesman for the Denton Fire Department who passed the information on to the commissioners court last -ij' 1 Before this week's change, the doors had to be opened from inside by pulling and from the outside by pushing. The theory behind the change is that in case of a fire or some other event causing.rapid evacuation of the courthouse, the doors having to beguiled inward might cause trouble should a panic occur. But with work completed this week, the doors wmch have same for a number of years are now finding people who are having just as hard a time changing. Wednesday, several frequent courthouse visitors would scale the stairs only to push on the doors which must now be opened by a pull. OTTAWA Edgar Collins, Canada's first ambassador to Communist China, believes the country is opening up to the outside world, and he expects a lot of Canadian visitors in Peking, The son of an American YMCA worker and a Canadian mother, Collins was born in Kumming and spent the first 12 of his 56 years there and in Peking.

He told newsmen after announcement of his appointment Tuesday he is looking forward to returning to the country his birth. "1 think everyone brought up in China suffers from a sense of nostalgia when he is away from there for a long he added. He was returned to China only once, in 1943-45 as third and second secretary at the Canadian legation-embassy in the wartime capital, Chungking. A smallish, wiry man with an intense manner and a sense of humor, Collins said his main job will be helping to get relations between China a Canada launched on the right course. Specific objectives, he said, will be for the government to set.

However, he predicted that more Canadian tourists will be going to Cuba, and student exchanges are "in the cards." Several visas Have been grauted Canadian newsmen since the two governments established diplomatic relations tast October, and Chinese newsmen are welcome to come to Canada, the new ambassador said. "I expect to have a great many visitors to Peking," he added. the LAGUNA HILLS, Calif. (AP) -The Asiatic once roamed from southern Europe to Asia. Now, 150 are left in a game preserve in India where human scavengers steal their fuod.

Experts estimate 40,000 tigers, lived in the jungles of India 25 years ago. Only 2,500 remain, saved when the Indian government banned tiger hunting and trade in tiger sjkins. Once plentiful in the Amazon Basin of South America, the jaguar has so declined that zoologists must travel hundreds of miles to find one. In short, the big cats of the world--lions, tigers, cheetahs, Jeopards, jaguars, and others- are rushing toward extinction. Unless something is done, and soon, zoologists warn, the cats will join the dodo bird and passenger pigeon as museum relics.

That was the grim picture painted here recently rrrre than a dozen big cat experts from India, Africa, Europe, Canada and the United States gathered to assess the future of the felidae. "The large predators have eached the twilight of their existence," said Dr. George r-haller, a zoologist wuh York Zoological and Rockefeller University who spent three years studying lions in Africa. "Shot for so-called sport, in demand by the far industry, trapped and poisoned because tney kill deer, livestock and ether animals in which man has vested interest, the tigers, leopard, cheetah and have been so ruthlessly exterminated in recent years that their future is not assured." It's not too late to preserve fte big cats, the scientists agreed. But it will be a difficult task involving international agreements with emerging nations where economic growth often takes priority over saving endangered species of wildlife.

The biggest obstacle is human population growth. In Africa, India, Asia and South America, expanding population is consuming more and more forests and grasslands, robbing the cats of native habitats and prey animals. The Asiatic lion, for example, shares it sacntuary with several thousand humands and must prey on farmers' cattle. But groups of scavengers members of India's "untouchables" caste, are alert for lion kills and quickly move in, driving the lions away. They iak? the hide and meat of the kill, leaving the remains for vultures.

Born Oct. 7, 1895, in Kentucky and reared in Texas, Mr. Cummings died Tuesday morning in the Veteran's Hospital at Marlin. He was a retired -naval commander. Survivors include his wife, Mildred; a son, Billy M.

Gummings, and a sister, Mrs. Mary C. Hester of Aubrey. Services Held J. H.

DAVIDSON, 86, funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Masonic Home for the Aged in Arlington. A lifelong resident of Denton, Mr. Davidson died Sunday evening in the Masonic Home. Active in Masonic work in Denton for many years, he was buried in the IOOF Cemetery following Masonic graveside services at noon.

He is survived by a niece, Louise Hardin of Fort Worth, and a newphew, Jesse White of Dallas. GEORGE H. DAVIS, funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Sanger First Baptist Church with the Rev. Gary West and the Rev.

James Johnson officiating. i a Cemetery. Vamie Vaughn, Hagan Belcher, Homer Belcher, Houston Higgs, Roy Amyx and J. T. Amyx.

ANDREW NELSON BALLARD, Timbers Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday in Tallahassee, Fla. Funeral services were held here at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Goen Funeral Home Chapel, Dr. Robert Leslie of Sherman officiating.

Pallbearers were W. E. Wood, Charles R. Wainright, Pat N. Roberts, Floyd Young, J.

F. Hamilton, R. B. Trotter, Curtis A. Land, C.

G. Bums, and Fred J. Hodges. Honorary pallbearers were members -of the Denton Masonic Lodge. 6 Liying Bank' Growing Fast Is i F.i was in Sanger Pallbearers were ISOLATION OVER? Much Is Behind Chinese Smiles By WILLIAM L.

RYAN Associate Press Writer Peking's welcome for the American table tennis team may prove in time to have been a historic breakthrough. The smiles showered on the visiting Americans are being widely analyzed for what may be behind them, and that could well be- a conviction among China's, leaders that the has come, to end their country's isolation from the Western world. It is, of course, possible that the Chinese leaders are interpreting what they hear about the United States in their own Chinese way, measuring events by their own yardsticks, in which case they might expect protest and violence in America to billow into proletarian revolution. None of the Chinese leaders knows much about the United States. Except for Chou En-lai, the able and well traveled premier, none of them has even seen a Western nation.

Whatever their motivation, Gty-Cauble Pact Held Up (Continued From Page 1) request, approved at the Council's last meeting. --Approved March tax adjust- decided that a critical moment ments has arrived for the development of a diplomatic offensive. --Denied issuance of a street They could welcome such vending permit to DD Ice things as cultural exchange, I cream Service until the Street even commercial exchange. Vending Ordinance is approved perhaps concentrating on the by the City CouncH. --Authorized Freese-Nicholi to proceed with plans and specifications for additional people-to-people level.

On that level there would be steady improvement of relations and a growth of mutual confidence. Peking, though it has capacity at the water treatment government-to-gov- mg eminent relations, has extent not --Approved Bob Storrie the petition of requesting of Development Is Approved end Kendolph Streets be changed from single family to 11 neighborhood service classification. --Referred four petitions to jthe Planning and Zoning Commission, concerning zoning classification UEWISVIULE BUREAU LEWIS VILLE Major costs; for a Lewisville West Shopping! Center drainage system should be borne by developer, Jerry! Cobb, city planning and zoning! NOTICE IS HEREBY LEGAL NOTICE chairman said Tuesday. GIVEN that Judith Annette the Chinese leaders may havef A Id-acre development-to be House has filed a written the new home of Gibson's Dis-l application on the 12th day count Center, department April, 1971 to be issued and a motion picture a Beer Retailers Off-Prem-- is located at Fox Avenue andj i ses License to sell beer at 1-35 service road. Retail in a Package Store In approving the James De-; under the name of STOCK MARKET NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE STOCKS Selected Tabulation of stock prices of 10:30 a.m.

New York time today as auoted by A. G. Edwards Sons. FIs- ures include last sale and change from previous day's close. Amerace Ssna 23 Vi unch American Motors Artec Oil Gas Amer.

Tel Te! BraniH HVi Brown Sharpe Collins Radio unch UP Ut pepper Ertnis Business Form 30 General Motors Genera! Tel Gulf Oil 33'4 InternaH. Harv UP VS unch I UP dn unch unch dn gan, project, the com-ij3 ott i Shop" at the follow- mission said the approval is fog location. 1110 West subject to diversion of water Highway 720. Little Elm, under Fox Avenue into a south Texas com piiance with Fox drainage ditch, a distance i 186, passedbv the 55th of about 3QQ feet into Timber; Legislature, 1957," effective Cr 'June 1957. Said application Final approval and drainage; be heard before thc costs rests with tne City Countv Jud the cil.

Lone Star Gas dn J. C. Penney Cn Safeway unch Sears Texas Industries Texas Utilities Union Oil of Calif. Zalc's Jewelry OTHER SHOCKS -u Y- -r- Courthouse on April 21, Builder Bill Earnhart of Enco! l.l/'X) A Inc. also must meet other city; construction requirements.

I UNDER MY In other action, the commis-j HAND AND SEAL OF OFsion: JFICE this the 12th day of --Approved zoning requests I April A.D. 1971. Harold McMullan from resi-j Jdential to commercial for! TH.ETA PARKER, property at Charles andi County Clerk, 4 1 Samuels streets and; Denton County, Texas i --Delayed action on addition April 13, 14, 1971 UB 433.1 unch HOUSTON (AP) Houston's Living Bank, a reception center for vital organs, has received almost 50,000 inquiries since August. The bank was established in October 1968 after Dr. Denton Cooley performed a series of heart transplants here.

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