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2 MUNCIE STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1963 Deaths and Funerals Melby M. Williams Curtis Gillum Melby M. Williams, 43, Yorktown, died Friday in Ball Hosin had lived in Yorkpital Leafier, a long illness. Born town 33 years and was a graduate of Yorktown High School. He was formerly employed at the 5.

Machine Shop and was a member of the Yorktown Christian Church. Surviving are his wife, Joanna; three daughters, Dianna Jo, Debra Ann and Denise Grace, all at home; his mother, Mrs. Emma Williams, Yorktown, and two sisters, Vivian Harnish, and Velma Frame, Yorktown. Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Parson Mortuary, Rev.

Earl C. Davis will officiate. Burial will be in Elm Ridge Cemetery. Friends may call at the mortuary after 7 p.m. Saturday, Sunday afternoon and evening and before services Monday.

Louis H. Ashby Louis H. Ashby, 63, Anderson, father of Robert Ashby, Muncie, died Thursday in the Anderson Community Hospital. He was a plumbing contractor. Surviving in addition to the son, are his wife, Rosalie; another son, Raymond, Anderson; two daughters, Mrs.

Rosalie Harless, Sheridan, and Mrs. Betty Wiles, Fayetteville, N.C.; two brothers, George, Chesterfield, and Lee, Anderson, and two sisters, Mrs. Maude Farmer, Summitville, and Mrs. Pearl Poore, Westport. Services will be at 10 a.m.

Saturday at Rozelle Funeral Home, Anderson. Burial will be in Anderson Memorial Park Cemetery. Rev. John Coons Rev. John Calvin Coons, 85, Lebanon, father of Jess Coons, Muncie, died Thursday at Indianapolis Methodist Hospital.

1 He was a Methodist minister and had been active in the ministry 63 years prior to his retirement. Surviving in addition to the son, are the wife, Julietta; four daughters, Mrs. Gladys Lawson and Kenneth Mitchell, Elkhart, Mrs. Larry Williams, Lebanon, and Mrs. Benny Williams, in Georgia; 10 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren, and two brothers.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Milledgeville Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Marion IO0F Cemetery. 'Ashcraft Infants Kent and Keith Ashcraft, dayold sons of Mr. and Mrs.

William Ashcraft, 1101 Bellaire died Friday at Ball Hospital. Mrs. Ashcraft gave triplets at the hospital Thursday. The third son, Kip, is in serious condition. Other than the parents and the brother, survivors are two other 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. Arrangements are pending at Pitman Funeral Home, Eaton.

Orva E. Shipley -Funeral services and burial for Earl Shipley, 65, a former resident of Summitville, were held recently in Severy, where he made his home. Mr. Shipley formerly operated a cafe in Severy until his retirement. Surviving are his wife, Nellie Davis Shipley; two sisters, Mrs.

Nellie Martin, New Albany, and Mrs. Velva Patterson, Tacoma Park, and a -sister, 1 Miss Lois Shipley, Robinson, Ill. Funerals GRACEMAN Services for Mrs. thy Graceman, 811 Beechwood will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Meeks Mortuary.

Entombment will follow in the Elm Ridge Mausoleum. Friends may call at the mortuary after 2 p.m. Sunday. McNETT Services for Mrs. McNett.

83, Chicago, 8 former Muncie Parson resident. will be at Burial 10 a.m. will be in Saturday Mount at Mortuary. Tabor Cemetery, RING Services for Mrs. Elizabeth Ring.

77, R.R. 7. will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Piepho Funeral Home. Burial will be in Beech Grove Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home from to 9 p.m. Saturday, at the family residence after 2 p.m. Sunday, and again at the funeral home an hour before the services. THORNBURG Services for Ira C. Thornburg, 307 Roosevelt will be at 10 a.m.

Saturday in Meeks Mortuary. Burdal will be in Elm Ridge Cemetery. THE MUNCIE STAR (Now in 65th Year) Published every morning by Muncie Newspapers, at High and Jackson Streets, Muncie, Ind. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Muncie, under the Act of March 3, 1879. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for reproduction of all news credited to this paper and also the local news published herein.

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WEATHER BUREAU COLD 8 80 90 80 100 Showers FORECAST For Daytime Saturday STATION Figures Show High Temperatures Expected Isolated Precipitation Net Indicated Consult Local Forecast Rose Garden Continued From Page 1 Council and the Parks and Recreation board. The vice president of the American Rose Society, C. H. (Pete) Lewis, Roanoke, will also be present along with John R. Lauer, Broadwell, Illinois-Indiana District director of the national rose group, and David Golden, Elmhurst, ARS director-at-large.

The dedication of the garden is one of the high points in the twoday convention of the rose societies in Illinois and Indiana which the local society is hosting at the Van Orman-Roberts Hotel. The Rev. Arthur W. McDavitt, the First Universalist-Unitarian Church, will give the benediction. Garden Open For Viewing Those attending the dedication are invited by the rose society to tour the garden before or after the dedication ceremonies.

In it are more than 1,500 plants of nearly 100 varieties of roses. These were donated by most of the rose nurseries in the U. S. including the Indiana firms of Krider's, Middlebury; Hillsdale Nurseries, Indianapolis; and Feed and Seed Store, Muncie. Other plantings in the garden were donated by Cox's house, Muncie, and Frame's Greenhouse, near Parker.

At 3 p.m. the rose society is sponsoring a garden tour of the gardens of Mrs. Abbott Johnson, J. D. Douglass, 2316 Oakwood 80 Warwick Mr.

and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Verle Hains, Brewington Woods, and Christy Woods on the Ball State College campus. Lewis will speak at the convention banquet at the Van Orman ballroom at 7 p.m.

Entertainment there will be provided by 30-voice the Singing Secretaries, the women's chorus from the Perfect Circle Corp. in Hagerstown. Brantley will be the master of ceremonies at the banquet also. The Illinois-Indiana district's ninth annual show will be held in the hotel ballroom Sunday. It will be open to the public from 2 until 6 p.m.

Entries will be received from 7:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. Sunday. A judging school to train new rose judges rounds out the convention program. It begins day at 9 a.m.

under the direction of Morris McNally, Noblesville, assisted by several Indiana rose judges. Hearing Continued From Page 1 building survey of the downtown area to determine what is necessary in way of additional facilities to provide such service. Results of the study should be available in about two weeks, Thomas said. They also said that if they were forced to install new heating systems as soon as 1964, there would not be enough area heating contractors to outfit all the downtown buildings in time. Those attending from Muncie and the firms or buildings represented included Attorney James Halligan and Michael Shively, Wysor Building; R.

V. Harrold and Herb Riley, Odd Fellows Lodge property; Johnson Biery, American National Bank, and Larry Shubnell, Investment Corporation. Car Rams Sign to a car driven William A. Police said damage, was $300 Polk 19, after it sideswiped a fence post in Thomas Park and struck a no parking sign on Ninth Street near Pierce Street Friday. In a front-to-rear accident at Batavia Avenue and Memorial Drive damage totalled $175 to cars driven by Rosemary Brown, 32, 2916 S.

Mulberry and Ernest E. Steagall, 43, 2024 W. Seventh St. FACTS ABOUT ELM RIDGE "Answering Questions" We like to answer questions about our cemetery, its complete facilities, our various services, our endowment funds, our business practices and policies. We are justly proud of Elm Ridge and the fine people in our organization, BUT we are continually looking for ways to improve and we welcome suggestions and ideas that sometimes develop from questions.

4500 KILGORE AVE. ELM RIDGE 288-5932 "The Cemetery That Remembers' Ball State Graduate Missing in Viet Nam AKRON, Ind. (AP)--Mrs. Barbara Weachter McKinney has been advised by the 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 their bomber failed to return from an air support mission for Viet Nam soldiers fighting Communist rebels. He is the son of Mrs. Esther Figel, 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 Mentone High School.

New Castle Youth Dies as Train Hits Auto at Crossing By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A Henry County teen-ager was killed Friday night when a train rammed a car carrying seven people, and a Greensburg died in a one-car accident near Connersville. And two college seniors, one of them the son of an Indianapolis banker, were killed when their small sports car rammed a semitrailer truck south of Peru. Donald Morgan, 14, R.R. 3, New 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.

The driver and the five other persons in the car escaped serious injury. The other passengers were Jackie Morgan, 15; David. Morgan, 16, and Charles Addison. 15, all of R.R. 3, New Castle, and James Hancock, 16, and Donald Guffy, 15, both of New Castle.

The train's engineer was L. M. Goldman, R.R. 7, Muncie. A car accident eight miles south of Connersville fatally injured Walter Allen Ray, 41, Greensburg, who died in Fayette Memorial Hospital, in Connersville.

Took Curve at High Speed State police said Ray apparently tried to round a' curve at excessive speed, his car hit a ditch and he was thrown through the windshield. The car rolled over on him and then righted itself, witnesses said. The Indianapolis youths, Carl Wilson Seet III, 20, and Richard Joseph Haag, 21, were crushed to death as the rear of the semitrailer dropped on their car after the wreck on U.S. 31 six miles south of Peru. State police said the sports car smashed into the left rear of the truck, ripping away the vehicle's tandem wheels, as the huge rig turned from Ind.

218 onto the Polygraph Test Verifies Death Facts Authorities planned to continue their investigation of the death of Rita Patterson, 6, Daleville, even though polygraph tests given to the child's father, Virgil, and stepmother, Rowena, indicated the couple told the truth about the circumstances of the death. State Police Sgt. Dick Hart said Friday Detain the tests revealed the couple was truthful in their account of the causes of the death, but certain phases of the test warrant further investigation. Both Mr. and Mrs.

Patterson submitted to the polygraph tests, given at the Indiana State Police Laboratory at Indianapolis, voluntarily. The 6-year-old girl died of a ruptured pancreas and liver sustained in a fall down a flight of 16 steps at the family's two-story home at Daleville. Mrs. Patterson told authorities Rita slipped on a toy after a quarrel with a step-sister. No charges have been filed against the couple and Hart said both have cooperated fully with authorities.

FORECAST showers are indicated Saturday for the eastern Great Lakes and northern Ohio valley. Scattered afternoon showers and thunder showers are predicted for the Mississippi valley, southern Great Plains and the southern and central Rockies. Warmer temperatures are due for the northern and central Atlantic coastal regions. Cooler weather is forecast for the northern and central Plains eastward through the Gerat Lakes region. A trend to warmer weather is likely for the central and northern Rockies.

(AP Wirephoto Map). THE WEATHER SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL 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. NORTHERN INDIANA: Partly cloudy with scattered showers Saturday. Partly cloudy and a little cooler Saturday night. Sunday mostly fair and cool. High Saturday in the 70s.

Low Saturday night 54-60. NORTHERN OHIO: Considerable cloudiness, warmer Saturday with scattered showers. High 75-80. Cloudy Saturday night with showers generally ending by midnight and little temperature change. 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. Hourly Temperatures a.m.. 9 a.m... .6 5 p.m... 76 3 a.m..

.54 10 a.m... .63 6 p.m.. a.m.. 11 a.m... 7 p.m.....71 5 a.m..

...54 Noon .68 8 8 8 8 8 ..68 a.m.. .52 1 9 p.m... 67 6 a.m.. a.m.. 1 ..50 3 2 p.m...

p.m... 72 10 p.m.....65 8 a.m.. 4 p.m... 75 7 74 11 High yesterday 78, low 49. THE WEATHER ELSEWHERE By The Associated Press H.

L.I H. Albany 62 49 Memphis 85 70 Albuq'rque 83 60 Miami 90 80 Atlanta 81 67 Wilwaukee 76 42 Bismarck 83 48 Pl. 74 58 Boise 92 N'w Orleans 93 73 Boston 58 New York 56 49 Buffalo 71 51 Okla. City 96 69 Chicago 80 58 Omaha 82 61 Cincinnati 79 Philadelphia 65 54 67 Phoenix 99 71 Denver Moines 80 85 58 57 Portl'd, Pittsburgh Me. 65 56 43 56 Detroit 75 P'rtl'd, Ore.

81 57 Fairbanks 56 38 Rapid City 88 62 Ft Worth 102 Richmond 75 56 Helena 89 46 St. Louis 81 53 Honolulu 84 St. L'ke Cty. 70 61 Indpls. 76 46 San Diego 78 67 J'cks'nville 91 71 S.

Francisco 82 57 Juneau 60 Seattle 77 53 K'ns's City 89 Tampa 88 72 L's Angeles 81 Washington 75 58 Louisville 78 Winnipeg 72 60 School Continued From Page 1 level, but the two have not yet attended classes. Wallace rushed 150 of his troopers to the port city Thursday night ostensibly for the purpose of blocking the admittance of the two to Murphy High, but the Negroes made no attempt to enter Friday. Within an hour after the troops were pulled out, the county school board at Mobile issued a statement declaring no school would be 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 he would appear on a statewide television hookup Sunday evening in an attempt to explain the complicated legal in-fighting to the people.

He promised to have a battery of constitutional lawyers with him. the LUXURY of LIGHT for LIVING Grabs for Purse, Rams Stump Trudy Pendergast, 16, Yorktown, received minor injuries late Friday when the car she was driving swerved 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. Constitution Week Declared by Mayor Curtis Gillum, his home.

He was native of Redkey a and formerly taught music in Union City, Winchester and Spartanburg. He is survived by his wife, Ruth; a daughter, Mrs. Marcella and two sons, DeWaine GilAncherman, Plaza. Delray, lum, Plaza and Dr. E.

M. Gillum, Portlanta. Friends may call at Jones and Placke Funeral Home, Richmond, from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday. Services will be there a.m.

1. Monday. Burial will be in Spartanburg Cemetery. Mrs. Ida Beath SUMMITVILLE Mrs.

Ida Beath, 81, Richmond, a former resident of Summitville and the widow of Edgar Beath, died Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Reba Ansler, Franklin, Ohio, where she was visiting. Surviving in addition to the daughter are a sister, Mrs. Sarah McClead, Wabash, and three grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Friends may call at Ewing Funeral Home, Summitville, after 2 p.m.

Sunday. Services will be at p.m. Monday in the funeral home with Rev. Richard Moore officiating. Burial will be in Vinson Memorial Cemetery.

Mrs. Gretchen Garrity FARMLAND Mrs. Gretchen Wall Garrity, a former Farmland resident, died Thursday in Zanesville, Ohio. She was the widow of William Garrity. She was born near Farmland, but had lived in Ohio 40 years.

Surviving are a son, Winkle, Zanesville; a daughter, Juanita; two brothers, Kenneth Wall, Farmland, and George Fort Wayne, and seven grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday 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 Cemetery.

Yingling Services Funeral services for Mrs. Ada May Yingling, 69, 1640 W. Ninth will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Yorktown Christian Church. Rev.

Burial Earl C. Davis will officiate. will be in Elm Ridge Cemetery. Friends may call at Parson Mortuary after 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday afternoon and evening.

Mrs. Yingling, the wife of John Yingling, died Thursday in Ball Hospital. Fields Infant UNION CITY The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Fields, Union City, died Thursday in Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie, a day after his birth at Union City Memorial Hospital.

Surviving in addition to the parents are a twin brother; the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Roberts, Union City, and Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Fields, Harrison, and the great grandmother, Mrs.

Nora Roberts, Arrangements are pending at Fraze and Timmons Funeral Home. Mrs. Jennie Sauselein nie L. HARTFORD Sauselein, CIT 90, Buffalo, N.Y., mother of Mrs. Florence Callender, Hartford City, died Thursday at a Buffalo hospital.

At the time of Mrs. Sauselein's death, Mrs. Callender was at the home of her son, George Veness, at Detroit. He is seriously ill at a hospital there. She has gone from Detroit to Buffalo.

Mrs. Janie Bayless Clifford Allen, 501 E. First was called to Ridgeway, Ohio, Thursday because of the death of his aunt, Mrs. Janie Bayless, 99, who died at her home there Wednesday. He was her only survivor.

Services and burial will 1 be held Saturday in Ridgeway. State Jobless Total at 2,700 There were 41,700 persons employed at mid-July, according to a report Friday by the Indiana Employment Security Division. The number of unemployed, 2,700, represents 6.1 per cent of the labor force, the employment division reported. 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. north-south highway near Bunker Hill. The truck driver, Dale K.

Sensibaugh, 45, Princeton, was not hurt. The truck was loaded with hogs. Seet was the 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, early Friday. The driver of the car, James Macklin, 19, of near Findlay, was also killed, and two passengers in the auto were injured. BABY WALKER STOLEN Mrs. Max Jones, 1115 S. Elm reported to police a baby walker was stolen from the yard of her home Thursday night.

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If you are a success-minded individual ad interested in self-improvement and getting Decision-Making ahead you will like what you see. Abilities Business or professional man, housewife or career girl, you are cordially invited to be our guest. Companies are Speaking Skills invited to send representatives. Motivating Ability Presented by Human Relation BOWTON ASSOCIATES, 19149 S. Drive, Insight Oakmont S.

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