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MUNCIE STAR. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1963 2 Deaths and Funerals Melby M. Williams Melby M. Williams, 43, York-town, died Friday In Ball Hos Constitution Week Declared by Mayor Mayor H. Arthur Tuhey has declared the week starting Monday, Sept.

16, as Constitution Week in Muncie and his proclamation urges residents and school and church officials to study and discuss the document. The local chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution is sponsoring the observance, held in connection with the signing of the Constitution Sept. 17, 1787. Grabs for Purse, Rams Stump Trudy Pendergast, 16, York-town, received minor injuries late Friday when the car she was driving 6werved off River Road at Morrison Road striking tree stumps. Deputy William Madsen said Miss Pendergast told him she took her eyes off the road to pick up her purse that had fallen to the floor of the car.

Damage was $400. pital after a long illness. Born in Letts, he had lived in York- Ball State Graduate Missing in Viet Nam AKRON, Ind. (AP) Mrs. Barbara Weachter McKinney has been advised by die Air Force that her husband, Lt.

Neil McKinney, is missing In Viet Nam. McKinney, 28, is an aerial intelligence officer and one of four men missing since Monday when their bomber failed to return from an air support mission for Viet Nam soldiers fighting Communist rebels. He is the son of Mrs. Esther FlgeL Fort Wayne. McKinney was graduated In 1960 from Ball State College, Muncie, and joined the Air Force in June, 1961.

He was a graduate of Men tone High School. Curtis Gillum RICHMOND Curtis Gillum, 69, died Friday at his home. He was a native of Redkey and formerly taught music In Union City, Winchester and Spartanburg. He is survived by his wife, Ruth; a daughter, Mrs. Marcella Ancherman, Plaza Delray, and two sons, Dr.

DeWaine Gillum, Plaza Delray, and Dr. E. M. Z3 town 33 years and was a ate of Yorktown High School. He was formerly employed at the Ml) VJ FieurM tKw High Ttmaerchiref pc4 Machine Shop and was a member of the Yorktown Christian Church.

Surviving are his wife, Joanna; three daughters, Dianna Jo, Deb- Gillum, Portland. Friends may call at Jones and FORECAST Scattered showers are Indicated Saturday for the ra Ann and Denise Grace, all at Placke Funeral Home, Richmond, home; his mother, Mrs. Emma from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sun eastern Great Lakes and north-era Ohio valley. Scattered after Williams.

Yorktown. and two SIS' Rose Garden Continued From Paga 1 day. Services will be there at 10 a.m. Monday. Burial will be in ters, Mrs.

Vivian Harnish, and noon showers and thunder show ers are predicted for the Missis Council and the Parks and Recreation board. sippi valley, southern Great Mrs. Velma Frame, Yorktown. Services will be at 1 p.m. Mon day at Parson Mortuary, Rev.

Earl C. Davis will officiate. Bur Spartanburg Cemetery. Mrs. Ida Death SUMMITVILLE Mrs.

Ida Plains and the southern and cen The vice president of the Amer New Castle Youth Dies as Train Hits Auto at Crossing tral Rockies. Warmer tempera ican Rosa Society, C. H. (Pete) ial will be in Elm Ridge Cemetery. Friends may call at the Lewis, Roanoke, will also be Beath, 81, Richmond, a former present along with John R.

Lau- tures are due for the northern and central Atlantic coastal regions. Cooler weather is forecast for the northern and central Plains eastward through the mortuary after 7 p.m. Saturday, Sunday afternoon and evening and er, Broadwell, 111., Illinois-Indi resident of Summitville and the widow of Edgar Beath, died Thursday at the home of her nn ana District director of the na tional rose group, and David daughter, Mrs. Reba Ansler, before services Monday. Louis H.

Ashby Gerat Lakes region. A trend to By THE ASSOCIATED PSESS Franklin, Ohio, where she was Golden, Elmhurst, ULNARS north-south highway near Bunker warmer weather Is likely for the A Henry County teen-ager was visiting. Hill. The truck driver, Dale K. Sensi central and northern Rockies.

killed Friday night when a train Surviving In addition to the The dedication of the garden Is Louis H. Ashby, 63, Anderson, father of Robert Ashby, Muncie, rammed a car carrying seven baugh, 45, Princeton, was not daughter are a sister, Mrs. died Thursday In the Anderson Sarah McClead, Wabash, and (AP Wlrephoto Map). THE WEATHER SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL people, and a Greensburg man died in a one-car accident near one of the high points In the two-day convention of the rose societies in Illinois and Indiana which the local society is hosting at Community Hospital. He was a three grandchildren and eight Connersville.

great grandchildren. plumbing contractor. Friends may call at Ewing the Van Orman-Roberts Hotel. And two college seniors, one of Surviving in addition to the son, them the son of an Indianapolis The Rev. Arthur W.

McDavitt, are his wife, Rosalie; another son, Raymond, Anderson; two banker, were killed when their Funeral Home, Summitville, after 2 p.m. Sunday. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the funeral home with Rev. Richard former pastor of the First Uni-versaliit-Unitarian Church, will give the benediction.

INDIANA: Considerable cloudiness and mild Saturday with chance of scattered showers or thundershowers. Clearing and cool Saturday night. Fair and mild Sunday. High Saturday 75-84. Low Saturday night in the 50s.

small sports car rammed a semitrailer truck south of Peru. daughters, Mrs. Rosalie Harless, Sheridan, and Mrs. Betty hurt. The truck was loaded with hogs.

Seet was the son of Carl W. Seet vice president of Indiana National Bank. Haag was driving the compact sports car, troopers said. Robert Blagrave, 26, Vincennes, was killed in the flaming crash of his semi-trailer truck and an auto south of Sullivan, 111., early Friday. The driver of the car, James Macklin, 19, of near Findlay, 111., was also killed, and two passeng Wiles, Fayetteville, N.C.: two Donald Morgan, 14, R.R.

3, New Moore officiating. Burial will be in Vinson Memorial Cemetery. Garden Open For Viewing brothers, George, Chesterfield, Those attending the dedication and Lee, Anderson, and two sis NORTHERN INDIANA: Partly ters, Mrs. Maude Farmer, Sum- are invited by the rose society to tour the garden before or after Mrs. Gretchen Garrity TODAY SUNDAY At the Total Electric Residence of CHARLES 11.

DEtVER 2112 TJ. RESERVE cloudy with scattered showers mitville, and Mrs. Pearl Poore, Castle, died when a car driven by James Addison, 17, also of R.R. 3, New Castle, was hit by a Nickel Plate railroad train at a Henry County crossing about eight miles southeast of New Castle. FARMLAND Mrs.

Gretchen the dedication ceremonies. In it Westport. Saturday. Partly cloudy and a little cooler Saturday night. Sun Wall Garrity, a former Farm are more than 1,500 plants of Services will be at 10 a.m.

Sat day mostly fair and cool. High ers in the auto were injured. land resident, died Thursday in Zanesville, Ohio. She was the widow of William Garrity. She was born near Farmland, but nearly 100 varieties of roses.

These were donated by most of the rose nurseries in the U. S. including the Indiana firms of urday at Rozelle Funeral Home, Anderson. Burial will be in Anderson Memorial Park Cemetery. Saturday in the 70s.

Low Saturday night 54-60. The driver and the five other persons in the car escaped serious had lived in Ohio 40 years. BABY WALKER STOLEN Mrs. Max Jones, 1115 S. Elm reported to police a baby Middlebury; Hillsdale injury.

The other passengers NORTHERN OHIO: Consider, able cloudiness, warmer Satur Surviving are a son, Robert Rev. John Coons were Jackie Morgan, 15; Davie1.1 day with scattered showers. High Nurseries, Indianapolis; and Feed and Seed Store, Muncie. Other plantings in the garden Morgan, 16, and Charles Addlsoif walker was stolen from the yard of her home Thursday night. I Rev.

John Calvin Coons, 85, Lebanon, father of Jess Coons, Winkle, Zanesville; a daughter, Juanita; two brothers, Kenneth Wall, Farmland, and George 15, all of R.R. 3, New Castle, and 75-80. Cloudy Saturday night with showers generally ending by midnight and little temperature were donated by Cox's Green James Hancock, 16, and Donald Wall, Fort Wayne, and seven house, Muncie, and Frame i change. grandchildren. Muncie, died Thursday at Indianapolis Methodist Hospital.

He was a Methodist minister and had been active in the ministry 63 Greenhouse, near Parker. Guffy, 13, both of New Castle. The train's engineer was L. Goldman, R.R. 7, Muncie.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Sun At 3 p.m. the rose society Is A one-car accident eight miles sponsoring a garden tour of the years prior to his retirement. gardens of Mrs. Abbott Johnson, Surviving in addition to the son, south of Connersville fatally injured Walter Allen Ray, 41, day at Hillis Mortuary, Zanesville.

The body will then be brought to Farmland where graveside services will be at 1: 30 p.m. Monday in Buena Vista 80 Warwick Mr. and Mrs. J. Douglass, 2316 Oakwood Greensburg, who died in Fayette are the wife, Julietta; four daughters, Mrs.

Gladys Lawson and Mrs. Kenneth Mitchell, Elkhart, Mrs. Larry Williams, Lebanon, Mr. and Mn. Verle Halns, Featuring GENERAL ELECTRIC BASEBOARD HEATING K-24 INSULATION Cemetery.

Memorial Hospital, in Connersville. Took Curve at High Speed Brewington Woods, and Christy Woods on the Ball State College Yingling Services FREE Pick-Up find Delivery for: Lubrication Car Wash Oil Change Call 202-8703 BETWEEN 8:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. and Mrs. Benny Williams, in Georgia; 10 grandchildren and 12 campus, SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL OHIO: Partly cloudy with chance of scattered showers Saturday and Saturday night.

Highs Saturday 74-82. KENTUCKY; Mostly fair and mild through Saturday night. Highs Saturday 78-87. LOWER MICHIGAN: Mostly cloudy Saturday, turning cooler with scattered showers or thundershowers ending west in afternoon. Highs in 60s north, 67-75 south.

Clearing and cooler Saturday night except a few showers likely southeast. 1 Hourly Temperatures 1 am 531 a a.m..... 611 6 p.m 16 3 a 54 10 a.m.. 6 p.m 76 3 a.m 64ill a fis 1 n.m -71 State police said Ray apparent Lewis will speak at the con great grandchildren, and two Funeral services for Mrs. Ada May Yingling, 69.

1640 W. Ninth vention banquet at the Van Or- brothers. ly tried to round a curve at excessive speed, his car hit a ditch and he was thrown through the will be at 10 a.m. Monday man ballroom at 7 p.m. Enter at Yorktown Christian Church.

Rev. Earl C. Davis will officiate. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Milledgeville Methodist Church.

Burial will be in the windshield. The car rolled over on Burial will be in Elm Ridge him and then righted Itself, witnesses said. tainment there will be provided by ths Singing Secretaries, the 30-volce women's chorus from the Perfect Circle Corp. in Hagers-town. Brantley will be the mas Marion IOOF Cemetery.

Cemetery. Friends may call at The Indianapolis youths, Carl Parson Mortuary after 7 p.m LEIIH HEATiriG Saturday and Sunday afternoon ter of ceremonies at the banquet Ashcraft Infants Kent and Keith Ashcraft, day- Wilson Seet III, 20, and Richard Joseph Haag, 21, were crushed to death as the rear of the semi and evening. also. 4 a.m 64 Noon 68 n.m 68 Mrs. Yingling, the wife of John The Illinois-Indiana district's old sons of Mr.

and Mrs. William Ashcraft, 1101 Bellaire died and Yingling, died Thursday in Ball ninth annual show will be held trailer dropped on their car after the wreck on U.S. 31 six miles south of Peru. Hospital. 63 1 p.m Ill p.m 67 6 a 60 3 p.m 72110 p.m 65 1 a.m sol 3 p.m 74 II p.m 61 8 a.m....

661 4 p.m 75 Midnight. .60 High yesterday 78, low 48. THE WEATHER ELSEWHERE By Tba Associated Press H. I. II T.

Friday at Ball Hospital. in the hotel ballroom Sunday. It Mrs. Ashcraft gave birth to will be open to the public from 2 until 6 p.m. Entries will be re Fields Infant State police said the sports car triplets at the hospital Thursday.

ceived from 7:30 a.m. until 10:30 Albany 63 491 1 Memphis 85 70 Albuq'rque 83 .....80 80 UNION CITY The Infant son smashed into the left rear of the truck, ripping away the vehicle's a.m. Sunday. condition. Atlanta 81 67 IWllwaukee 76 42 Bismarck 83 48 PI.

74 68 of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Fields, Union City, died Thursday in Ball AIR CONDITIONING Phone 284-9921 for Free Estimates tandem as the huge rig A judging school to train new Other than the parents and the brother, survivors are two other turned from Ind. 218 onto the Boise 92 701 Boston 68 63! Buffalo 71 Sll Chicago 80 8 N'w Orleans 83 73 New York 86 49 Okla. City 96 60 Omaha 82 '61 rose judges rounds out the con Memorial Hospital, Muncie, a day vention program.

It begins Satur after his birth at Union City 64 Cincinnati 70 401 1 Philadelphia 65 Cleveland 67 521 1 Phoenix 00 Memorial Hospital. 71 VIRGINIA COAL OIL SUNOCO SERV. T20 N. Broadway, Ph. 282-8709 Denver 85 681 1 Pittsburgh 65 66 43 Surviving in addition to the par Ds Moines 80 67IIPortl'd.

Me. 66 day at 9 a.m. under the direction of Morris McNally, Noblesville, assisted by several Indiana rose judges. 67 Detroit 75 Ore. 81 brothers, William and Donald, and two sisters, Rhonda and Geneva, all at home, and the grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Loren Ashcraft, Shideler, and Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Cavanaugh, Eaton. i Fairbanks 56 3811 Rapid City 88 62 Ft Worth 103 7411 Richmond 75 66 ents are a twin brother; the grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Hiram Roberts, Union City, and Mr. Helena 80 4fll St. Louis ..81 63 Polygraph Test Verifies Death Facts Authorities planned to continue Honolulu 84 79 St. L'ke Cty.

70 61 IndDls 78 481 1 San Dleeo 78 67 J'cks-nvllle 01 71118. Francisco 83 67 and Mrs. Sidney Fields, Harrison, and the great grandmother, Mrs. Arrangements are pending at Juneau 60 631 1 Seattle 77 63 Hearing Continued From Page 1 Pitman Funeral Home, Eaton. Nora Roberts, Winchester.

K' nil's City 89 63! Tampa 88 72 L's Aneeles 81 64l Washington 75 68 Louisville 78 I3IIWlnnipeg ..7 60 Arrangements are pending at Fraze and Timmons Funeral building survey of the downtown BE OUR GUEST For Dinner and a Preview of the DALE CARNEGIE COURSE (No Charge or Obligation) their Investigation of the death of Rita Patterson, 6, Daleville, even Orva E. Shipley SUMMnVILLE Funeral serv School Home. area to determine what is neces sary in way of additional facilities ices and burial for Orva Earl though polygraph tests given to the child's father, Virgil, and stepmother, Rowena, indicated Continued From Page 1 Mrs. Jennie Sauselein to provide such service. Results of the study should be available Shipley, 65, a former resident of level, but the two have not yet HARTFORD CITY-Mrs.

Jen Summitville, were held recently the couple told the truth about in about two weeks, Thomas said. attended classes. Severy, where he made nie L. Sauselein, 90, Buffalo. the circumstances of the death.

DALE CARNEGIE (founder) They also said that if they were Wallace rushed 150 of his troop his home. N.Y., mother of Mrs. Florence State Police Det. Set. Dick Wednesday, September 18 7:00 p.m.

Van Orman-Roberts, Muncie forced to install new heating sys Callender, Hartford City, died Mr. Shipley formerly operated a ers to the port city Thursday night ostensibly or the purpose of tems as soon as 1964, there would Thursday at a Buffalo hospital. cafe In Severy until his retire Hart said Friday night the tests revealed the couple was truthful in their account of the causes of i not be enough area heating con ment blocking the admittance of the two to Murphy High, but the Negroes At the time of Mrs. Sauselein's death, Mrs. Callender was at the tractors to outfit all the downtown Surviving are his wife, Nellie buildings in time.

the death, but certain phases of the test warrant further home of her son, George Veness, Davis Shipley; two sisters, Mrs. Those attending from Muncie made no attempt to enter Friday. Within an hour after the troops were pulled out, the county school board at Mobile issued a state at Detroit. He is seriously ill at a hospital there. She has gone Nellie Martin, New Albany, and Mrs.

Velva Patterson, Tacoma Park, Md and a half-sister, Miss and the firms or buildings represented included Attorney James Both Mr. and Mrs. Patterson irom Detroit to Buffalo. ment declaring no school would be Halligan and Michael Shivery, wy- Lois Shipley, Robinson, 111. submitted to the polygraph tests, given at the Indiana State Police Laboratory at Indianapolis, vol sor Building; R.

V. Harrold and Herb Riley, Odd Fellows Lodge Mrs. Janie Bayless untarily. Funerals property; Johnson Biery, Ameri Clifford Allen, 501 E. First was called to Ridgeway, Ohio, Dale Carnegie Training Helps Develop Confident Attitudes Decision-Making Abilities Skills Motivating Ability Relation Insight Leadership Abilities You have heard about the training for years read about it in Time, Look, Newsweek, Changing Times, Readers Digest and in your local newspapers.

Now is your opportunity to see for yourself what the Dale Carnegie Course is all about. If you are a success-minded individual interested in self-improvement and getting ahead you will like what you see. Business or professional man, housewife or career girl, you are cordially invited to be our guest. Companies are invited to send representatives. Presented by BOWTON ASSOCIATES, 19149 S.

Drive, Oakmont S. Bend, Indiana Write for FREE Reservations or Call in Muncie 289-1881 (Day or Evening) Answering Service. The 6-year-old girl died of a rup closed, including the one to be desegregated. Wallace was meeting opposition at nearly every turn in his efforts to preserve segregation, and much of the controversy was finding its way into the courts. Wallace announced late Friday can National Bank, and Larry Shubnell, Investment Corp Thursday because of the death ORACEMAN SfHrleM for Mrs.

Dorothy Oraceman, 111 Brecbwood will be at 10 a.m. Mondar In Mreks Mortuary. Entombment will follow In the Elm Ridge Mausoleum. Friends mar call oration. of his aunt, Mrs.

Janle Bayless, 99, who died at her home there tured pancreas and liver sustained in a fall down a flight of 16 steps at the family's two-story; home at Daleville. Mrs. Patter-1 son told authorities Rita slipped; at the mortuary after p.m. sunaay, Wednesday. He was her only sur he would appear on a statewide vivor.

Services and burial will be Car Rams Sign Police said damage was $300 McNETT Servleea for Mn. Anna McNett, 83. Chicago, a former Muncie resident, win be at 10 a.m. Saturday at television hookup Sunday evening held Saturday in Ridgeway. Parson Mortuary.

Burial wui be in Mount on a toy after a quarrel with a step-sister. in an attempt to explain the com Taoor cemetery. to a car driven by William A. Polk 19, after it sideswiped No charges have been filed; RING Services for Mrs. Ellrabeth Ring.

77. R.R. 7. will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Plepho Funeral Home.

Burial will be tn Beech Drove Cemetery. Friends a fence post in Thomas Park and plicated legal in-fighting to the people. He promised to have a battery of constitutional lawyers with him. I struck a no parking sign on against the couple and Hart said both have cooperated fully with authorities. State Jobless Total at 2,700 There were 41,700 persons em Slst Year of Dale Carnegie Courses Over 1 Million Graduates may call at the funeral home irom to 9 D.m.

Saturday, at the family real Ninth Street near Pierce Street dence after 2 p.m. Sunday, and again at the funeral home an hour before the Friday. i services. In a front-to-rear accident at pioyea ai mia-juiy, according to a THORNBUHO Bervlera for Ira C. report Friday by the Indiana Em Batavia Avenue and Memorial Thornburg, 307 Roosevelt will be at 10 a.m.

Saturday In Meeka Mortuary. Bur ployment Security Division. The Drive damage totalled $175 to ial wui be in Elm Ridge cemetery. cars driven by Rosemary Brown, number of unemployed, 2,700, represents 6.1 per cent of the labor 32, 2916 S. Mulberry and THE MUNCIE STAR (Now In th Tear) Ernest E.

Steagall, 43, 2024 W. force, the employment division reported. Seventh St published every morning by Muncie Newspapers, at High and Jackson Btreeta. Muncie, ina. Entered as second clas natter at the Post Office at Muncie.

Ind, under the Act of March 3, 1S7. is coming to the LuAnRy THTT1P 1 FACTS ABOUT ELM RIDCE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Pres la exclusively entitled to the use for reproduction of all newa credited to thia paper and also the local news published Herein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dally, by carrier, per week 40 Cents Sunday, by carrier, per copy 90 Cents Motor route subscriptions In Delaware County. (No mall subscriptions accepted in Delaware county.) 1 Yr. 8 Mo.

3 Mo. 1 Wit. anally only 120.80 $10.40 IS. 20 .40 Daily and Sonde 11.50 15 60 ISO .60 City and Motor Route subscriptions when paid in advance are ac "Answering Questions" We like to answer questions about our cemetery, its complete facilities, our various services, our endowment funds, -our business practices and policies. cepted for one year only.

MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS (Except Delaware County) 1 Yr. Mo. 3 Mo. 1 Mo. Dan only 113.00 S.00 J4.60 11.60 Daily and Sunday .0 13.30 110 150 ol MDrlll I for LMIG I We are justly proud of Elm Ridge and the fine people in our organization, BUT ice are continually looking for ways to improve and we welcome suggestions and ideas that sometimes develop from questions.

MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES OUTSIDB INDIANA 1 Yr. 6 Mo. 3 Mo. 1 VTt. Dally only 130.80 $10.40 $5.20 .40 Dally and Sunday 31.30 IS.

60 7.80 .60 All aubaerlptloni must be accompanied by cash. Currency and coin in ordinary letters, while ordinarily safe, must always be sent at the sender's risk. Make checks, money Oiders or bank draft! payable to The Muncie Gtar. Mail ubscrtptlom will not be accepted from people living in towns vhere The Muncie Star maintains carrier Sunday, September 8 The Bar-Tel Company 4500 KILGORE AVE. 2S8-5932 delivery.

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