Express and News from San Antonio, Texas • Page 26

DO HO CU1CK This Audition Has 200 Wing By WILUAM K. KARRKLL VOmc TIKES NEW YORK What has 2W Wngs, was caged in the Ameri. Ho(d Saturday, and now hses points for sdmatters wvd schnetters and points for jchwirrs and schnarrs? The answer: 25 canary quartets entered In the world series roller canaries staging contest. in annual event. a small anteroom in Ihe hotel's Provence Suite, the two dges of the event sal for mrs at a (able Uttered with 8 cigars, saccharine pills, Thermos of coffee, two poeke watches and a stack of scorecards.

Across from them was wioth er table where a quartet of birds was auditioned every 30 minutes. In the main room of the those birds not bein -Miss NebM Mrs. San Antonio Coeds Cited ViMrs. Tancey lave and Belly Jane Nelson of San Antonio are among 38 students to be namet to represent North Texas" State University in the 1965 edition IJWho's Who Among Students in American Universities and Col leges." The honor group was selected from the student body of 11,878 were kept in dark wooden cages to prevent them from warbling The judges, Otto Schullz aw Peter Fassbender, both la their 60s and both canary fanciers for more Pian 3J years, occas lonally hooted and whistled a the birds to get them singing Once the birds began to chlr a word both the judges sak bespoke ignorance of a canary' repertoire they graded th performance on the basis schockels, "a chuckle like ha ha ho ho ho," glucks, "Cluck cluck like a hen," water rolls "lilie water racin: over rock" and flutes "do de do do." The birds.lost points if the judges found schwirrs "sounds like calico being torn," Locken "just whistling," schnarrs, "jus like it sounds," aufzug "wheez ing" or schn alters and schnet ters "like schnarrs only much worse." Frank J. Kelly, manager the greater New York Boiler Canary Club, was responsible for bringing the birds in and oui of the.judges' room.

He darted about the suite with ae alacrity of a secretary-bird, seeping records on the canaries, some of whom had been uhMHwib wvuj vri vi. WUWll XMQ Mrs. Love, daughter of Lt. shipped from Belgium and Can Col. and H.

H. Copeland, "181 Artillery Post is a senior journalism major. -She is a member of Sigma Phi, women's professional, journalism fraternity; national scholarship society; Meri- tum, women's honor organization; and the Campus Chat staff, NTSU student newspaper. A junior English major, Miss Ifelson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Vernon E. Nelson Clower St. She is record- feig secretary of Alpha Chi and member of Sigma Tau Delta, ftational English honor society; Kappa Delta Pi, national edu- honorary organization; Sigma Delta Pi, National Spanish club acb for the contest. answered the phone. there's no pigeon oatipn here," he said in a thick Irish brogue.

"It's a roller canary, club. Well I'm sorry, no pigeons," he said firmly. He said roller canaries Were bred solely for song and were so called because of the way hey warbled. He was a little crestfallen because a quartet of his prized ingers tones they, had resisted the the judges and had refused! sing. He said he had bred the birds or more than 30 years and lept several of them in a top- floor room of his Bronx home Deaths and Funerals ARTIFACTS INSPECTED--Ben Pingenot, Eagle Pass omoteur historian, inspects pieces of pottery found'in ruins of old walls uncovered by rampaging waters of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass during the last flood.

An old percussion pistol was among the many artifacts found at the Photo. ORIGINAL EAGLE PASS Rio Flood SofaesMystery By JOHN BENNETT Staff Writer Whiting wrote of the new nuici Eagle Pass, "a great deal of EAGLE PASS The bloated 33 of California immigration and of the inland and banks of the Rio Grande earthed history here a month go and completed a tale of wo cities. Raging waters that scoured 1 gullies 30 feet deep also gouged ut the ruins of the original set tlement of Eagle Pass, uic iiiianu dim nuuu.) ca'Ilc flnu of Mexican commerce comes by the little settlement. vauivtiiia, 1UL IjaillOmia Scattered on the silty bariks gold they traveled overland to Mazatlan on the Pacific' coast, then boarded ships for Sari Francisco or San Diego. This Eagle Pass became! known as California Camp.

Mn. Katie Gonder Katie W. Gonder, 89, of mother ot District, died Saturday. Services will be at 1:30 p.m Monday in Porter Loring Fu neral Home. Burial will be in City Cemetery, Jourdanlon.

native of Seguln, Mrs. Gonder was a resident of San 'An tonio 12 years. Survivors ihclude another son Frank B. Gonder, Glen Burnie daughters, Mrs. Anne Ho gan, Mrs.

Georgie Macias, both of San Antonio; four grandchil dren and four great grandchil dren. Mn. Susie Richards Services will be at 8:45 a.m Monday in the Riebe Funera Home for Mrs. Susie Richards 86, of 213 Santa Clara who died Saturday. Survivors include her husband 0.

D. Richards; 'daughter, Mrs Felice F. Noll; son, Jenaro Flores; sisters, Mrs. Angelita Nunez arid Mrs. Constance two grandchildren am tour great grandchildren.

Catharina MuHom Funeral services will be a t.iii. Tuesday in the Roy Akers funeral Home for Mrs. Catha rina Maria Josephina Mutsaers 82, of 933 W. Lynwood Ave, who died Friday. t'Mrs.

Mutsaers was a resi telt, of San Antonio 42 years, is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Antoniette Willett; Brothers, Franz Ronda, Charles Bonda, Andrea Ronda, Johanne flonda, all of Maastrecht, Hoi sisters, Miss Pauline Ron da, Mrs. Anna Gilda, both of tonio Martinez and Mrs. Am'pa- ro C. Dauila, all of San Anlonio; brother, David C.

Murillo, San Antonio; sister, Mrs. Sara C. Adame, Mexico City; and 18 grandchildren. Burial will be in the Guadalupe Cemetery. Frank Kindta Funeral services for Frank Kindla, 82, of 233 Gillett Blvd.

will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St Lawrence Church. Burial will be in Leming, Tex. A rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Southside Funeral Home T.Sgt Junes E.

Buriw Funeral services for T. Sgt James Earl Burton, USA, wil Jfaastrecht, Holland; four frandchiidren. Albert Seffel Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the Roy Akers Fu- Beral Home for Albert Seffel, of 227 Slandord who ffled Saturday. Burial Hill be in North Mission Burial Park.

Seffel was a member of the St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Jffarmonia Lodge No. 1 and Sons 'ark in Waco under directiSn Hermann, and was traffic ftianager at Joske's Department Sore in San Antonio for 32 Survivors Include his wife, Fcr el member of the who died Friday. He was a resi dent of San Antonio 59 years. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.

B. R. Murillo; daughters, Mrs. Gloria Quesada, Mrs. re the broken remnants of not long lived, i mother to one still growing.

Faces Condemnation Discovered on the Pittman irm across from Mexico's lear-water Rio Escondido, it may be condemned by buil- ozer before exploratory digging an really siart. Procter St. Clair, machine op- rator working for farm" man ger Marvin L. Harris, found le ruins while plowing on the Rio Grande's basics three weeks ago. Well-meaning history buffs and amateur archeological Votaries have besieged Harris for digging claims ever since.

Harris, however, plans to the gutted ruins into a 20-foot gully, then begin "pick- The flood peeled silty layers atop the old town and laid bare, for view, scattered artifacls. Already recovered are pieces cf pottery, stove parts, a section of an old wagon wheel dated 1867, the frame of an old Colt percussion pistol and the lock from a converted flintlock musket. Pieces of rusty iron, bone and pottery lay scattered on lop of be at 2 p.m. Monday a 1 Alamo Chapel. Burial will be in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery with full military hon- nr Survivors include wife, Mrs Fannie Burton; daughter, Mrs.

Barbara Tarver, both of San Antonio; E. Burton of'Devine, three sisters and three brothers. Mn. Lillie Kopeck! Funeral services for Mrs. (U1- lie KopecH, 66, of 370 Riverside will be at 9 a.m.

Monday at St. Leo's Catholic Church. Burial will be in San Fernando Cemetery No. 2. San Antonio and Erml Kopecki of Falls City daughters, Mrs.

Betty Kolodziej' Mrs. Bob Worrick, Mrs. Bill friight, Mrs Lillio Patterson, Mrs. Chris Littrell, all of San Antonio, Mrs. Leon Sczepanik of Falls City and Mrs.

A. Opella of Atascosa. Liberty Ferlet c- PE TO EXPRESS-NEWS LOS FRESNOS -'Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in he Mount Calm Church of Christ, Mount Calm, for Libery M. Ferlet 76, of Los Frcsnos, who died Tuesday in exico City.

Burial will be in Memorial the ground The' Site Forgotten present Eagle Pass sprang in the spring of 1849 after the founding of Fort Duncan here. Somewhere along the line people forgot about earlier town occupied abandoned three years earlier. Mrs, William L. Cazncau, who settled in Eagle Pass in 1S50, called Eagle headed child. Pass a "two- She left a book entitled "Eagle Pass, Or Life On The Border" and described the two.

One morning she rode to the old settlement from Eagle Pass, liked it and later planted orchards there. in oM Eagle Pass for its commercial advantage. It lay in a good vicinity to the semicircle of Mexican towns that spread i arc in front of it radiating to the mining districts beyond. Too, it was a crossing point records. City Described In 1850 Lt.

W. H. C. Whitting of the Topographical Engineers wrote: "Eagle Pass is a name given )y the Mexicans to a canyon through the hills on the other side of the river, and near the mouth of the Escondido, which passes the road to San ernando (now Zaragoza). this place; and it may from this, and its position as the probable head of navigation on the Hi Grande, become an important point." Kmigrants stopped here, then crossed into Mexico enroule to California.

Bound for California With Fort Duncan new Eagle Pass grew, and the old one died. Floods came and silt buried The steady flow of emigrants two miles above the old settlement had robbed the first town of any chance of glory. Today if. is only partly unearthed. A full-scale effort might find a well-preserved ij ui un: in rauroao.

Donas. IWH was lhought The altome said that in many abandoned hastil durin a eases th hastily during But Harris, at first enthusiastic about the find, isn't about to invite hundreds of curious seekers. Voters Pass School 3 Old Favorites, Bond Issue Phis New Music Voters in the tral Rural High School approved two major tions Saturday, bond issue for school Uon." Total vole was 586. proved a to 7 p.m. Satun precincts.

The nearly twc al came as good news school that in pa met with citizen anv bond electloi struct a cafeteria, rooms and shops at school, four classroom at Salado and Glenn lary Schools, and I classrooms at Harm mentary. The bonds will also pair sections of Harmony Wealthy Clerk Leaves Fortune PHILADELPHIA nheritance, left more than charities. said Bauer inherited about flfl from his mother brother, and that he most of this in railroad bonds. cases the bonds more than 10 times riod Bauer owned them PGW clerks average 50 in weekly sa" classification. STOWERS Furniture Company 'art Cen JJIStnC prooosi a WW.WO construe ssed by a itizens ap- aintenance majority 7 a nit i d.llt or the 14 le approv ews to a years has stance to tax in wJ severa ey finally in 1961 to con wo class the high additions Elemen two new ony Ele i hdp fg nony Ele- school rk LilC (AP) -Philadel- wbogota estate of to five Smith, wut and a invested id bonds.

in many predated the pee (o according ny nr.nALU ASHFtlRI) Dr. Victor Alessandro and the San Antonio Symphony Orehes tra journeyed to the Incarnate Word CoUege Auditorium for a speciii concert Saturday nigh which included three old favor iies and doe piece of new mus ic, John Vincent's "Symphonic Poem After Descartes." This stimulating piece of phil osophy-in-music was introduced with a 10-minule talk on Des cartes by Dr. S. Thomas Green burg, the philosophical presi dent of Incarnate Word, and was also discussed at some length in a leaflet distributed with the programs. Vincent, who succeeded Ar nold Scboenberg as teacher musical composition at UCLA sums up his explanation of the tone poem in these words: "Descartes said that, given one indisputable fact, he could build a whole philosophy.

His fact was 'Cogito, ergo sum" -'I think, therefore I From that he explained the reality world, the heavens, even the existence of God. "It occurred to me that the indisputable fact of music is the 'chord of nature' the over lone series and that a piece juiit upon this as a basis would in a sense, be according to Descartes' philosophical procedure." 'Only another professor of musical theory who was also a student of Descartes can tell whether Vincent's concept is a valid one, which begins in what seems 'to be chaos and ends in vhat could be a thumping af- irmaUon of the universe, spelled, out by the bass drum. between, there are passages of unsettling dissonance, r- rounded and outnumbered by melodic passages, some of them uggested by old Latin hymns. On the whole it. is a stirring riece, and it is unfortunate that no plans have been marie to play it to the larger audience at a regular subscription concert downtown.

Vincent, by the way, was in San Antonio a few years ago to speak at Symphony Uon. At 1 mln Fra played by phony uiv baton at Maestro the progi with the welcome Handel, ii chcstra. somewhat Adagietto phony No The pos the progr Beethoven phony, wh played at Lion conce son. The ic" is to urday's For details at which I joined by the piano. eron Repor MADRIE private se Peron ar Iane in 1 rectly to dictator's frustrated Secretary was iago, Chil in what s( an explore Chile woul on his way Iher Latir said they a entry i epeatedly Argentina a iwllonal Women's slm Sulle" was ie San Antonio Sym- Pr.

AlessMdro's University. Alessandro opened Saturday night familiar "Water but always Music" by The second number, i Sym- by Rudolf Firkusny at secretary' of arrived Saturday fro.m a number of Latin-American countries hey also will refuse Peron entry visa. Peron has said vould return to sef This Thanksgiving, Have a Thankful Cook in Your Home you get a REE ID-piece casserole (value, 3.95) the purchase of any of these ranges The cook al your house will thank you for easing the kitchen chores this year. All you have lo do is have STOWERS deliver ons of these new HARDWICK gas ranges, now. Slim, 1965 tailoring makes the new HARDWICK look good in your kitchen, too.

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Sara B. Ferlet, Los Frcs- nos; a daughter, Mrs. Kyle Bon Carpenter, McGeorge, Tex; four sons, Liberty Jr. and Theophile B. Ferlet, both of San Antonio, Anatole B.

Fcrlet Austin, Lorraine R. Ferlet, California; two brothers, and 17 grandchildren. Freighter Going Down; Crew Off LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP). A freighter radioed Saturday me ni S.

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