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The Amarillo Globe-Times from Amarillo, Texas • Page 10

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AmarilloGlobe-TlmcsWednesday, December 13. 1968 PamfHi's Hand Celt Kid A A Members of the I'ampa High School band and choir are expected to arrive home this afternoon from I-os Angeles, where their performance prompted another invitation to appear before national television. The New York Jets professional football team has in- ritcd Hie Pampa students to play In New York City on Dec. 29, said Dr. James P.

Malone, Pampa school superintendent. Dr. Malonc said, however, that Hie sc'hool has not officially lieard from the New York of- c. The i i a i was made to Pamjja hand director Harris lirinson following the hand and choir's performance afternoon during a i of the I-os Angeles a 5 Baltimore Colts game. '1'he "Pride of Pampa" will lie honored during a fourth pei'iocl assembly Thursday in the high school auditorium.

--AP Former actress Dolores Moran, pictured during her movie days in the '40s, rijjhl, and in a picture taken during (he past year, is named in a will of a secret admirer. The will of Anthony Ponce, a bachelor who lived in Sunnyvale, filnil Tuesday in San Jose, probate court, left a id-acre orchard worth more than $250,000 (o Miss Moran. Man She Doesn't Remember Leaves Fortune to Actress LOS ANGKLKS A "Unfortunately," says former actress Dolores Moran. "for the tifc of me 1 can't remember Ibc man. 1 1 i She was biking of A Ponce, a 58-ycar-okl bachelor recluse who IcEt her most of his 52JO.OOO to $300,000 estate.

Miss Moran, now -U, apparently met him when she was a 15-year-old carhop in Sunnyvale, Calif. Ponce died last September Joseph Do coin, attorney for the Mill's executor, saiil Ponce may h.ivc realized how much he was leaving Miss Moran. The will was a up in 1D-J7. It left $6,000 to five nieces and a nephew ami Ihe rest of my real ami jter- sonal property In Dolores Moran nf Hollywood. formerly employed by Warner Brothers." The other property included 10-acre apricot grove a was worth perhaps in 19H, when Ponce is believed to a met Miss Moran, Since then, the properly has become surrounded by exclusive Sunnyvale hotis- inK developments.

Attorneys est i a its a now from to perhaps $300.000. a i and of modest incomes, say tiicy plan to contest the will, HJcii probate Ponce lived in a modest house in the grove. Few in Sunnyvale, which is iu northern California, Council awarded .1 $21,897 con- The nieces and nephew, all knc City Hall Contract Okayed TUI.IA The City ndcpcndcnl contractor, for the renovation of city liall. The remodeling will be aimed space, city A long-time friend, George nonncich, said Police "never mcutioned anybody. He was jirclly dose mouthed." DuGioia also said Ponce never mentioned Miss Mornn: "lie jusl remembered licr.

He took a liking to her she was a youiis eirl and he dropped in at the drive-in for an occasional cup of coffee." She says her memory of the incident has heen "washed away" by time. Miss at IB, signed a seven-year contract with Warner Bros. She was called a "new Action Delayed On Paving Plan PLAINVIEW At a public hearing Monday i on the IMS paving program, Plainview city conncilmen postponed ac lion unlil Jan. 6, after scvera objections were raised to por lions of the SI 54 ,000 program. Dr.

Joe Wehl), a Phinview optometrist, raised an objection to the filling and paving of a playa lake area in the area 24lh Street from Yohkcrs to En nis. He and other propcrts jowners in the area said the plan iwas not financially feasible. The City Council agreed to study the matter further nefon Jan. 6. Other property owners raised objections' to paving on a Milwaukee and SE 3th streets.

In oilier action, Ihc counei voted to accept a low bid 57.032 by Maggard-N'all Motoi Co. o( Piainviou' for three nev police cars and $13,800 by Plain; Machinery of I.ubbock for a nev street sweeper. tract Tuesday night to Lee Cook 11 Harlow." She bad star bill- of Plainview an independent in "The Morn Blows at Midnight," "Johnny One-Eye," and "Old Acquaintance." She i after marrying producer Benedict K. Hogcaus. They had one child.

Brett, now 20, and were divorced four years at regaining a said Jim McAlisler, manager. McAlisler soul a a two-cell Bogcaus. who produced, among jail will also be constructed at others. "The Bridge of San Luis the northwest corner of city a The remodeling will pro- Hey," died last August." "Life is truly an cxtraordi- vide a drive-in window for ntili-jnary procession," Moran ty payments. said Tuesday of Ponce's Tile present i i was constructed in 13IS.

The last payment on the bond for the structure was made last month. ''What a a i thing. It's phenomenal. I'm not liring in imverly, certainly. But my reaction was one of marvel, awe." An Attempt To Save What's Leit A South Vietnamese peasant woman and her daughters carry pans of muddy water from a canal and throw it against a burning shock of rice straw near their farm hut.

The straw was set on fire and a portion of their home destroyed by I). S. helicopters firing on VSet Cong guerrillas with rockets and machine guns. The women were hiding in a bunker during (he hostilities, which occured in the Mekong Delta, about 60 miles southwest of Saigon. FR1 ARRESTS 31, MOST IN CHICAGO MILS Company "Exact Faro" I'lar.

LOS ANGELES A An "exact fare" plan aimed at reducing robberies was adopted by the Southern California Rapid Transit District Tuesday for its 1,500 buses. Fares will be dropped inlo locked container which can be opened only at the garage. There have been 187 bus holdups this year. There were 370 in the same period last year--before a two-way radio alarm system was installed. WASHINGTON' A The Ffil arrested 31 persons today --all hut one of them residents of the Chicago area--in what it dicating that various Selective called a "Selective Service scheme which resulted in illegal -s dr The Mekong River, the world's llth lohgest river, never has been spanned by a bridge or slowed by a a Draft-Dodge Scheme Involves Guardsmen Hoover said the scheme involved phony documents submitted to local draft boards "in- Service registrants were members of the National Guard when in a they were not such ft deferments." Tile FBI said four other lt)CI sons are being sought in the I Ilc said tllesc (lcliliolls locl1 case.

One ol the arrests was in Miami Beach, Fla. J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director, said the arrests early today were the result of "an extensive investigation by FBI agents and involved three individuals who were fulltime employes of the Illinois National Guard. SKVEN KILLED MAN'ILA I Mountain tribesmen killed seven persons including three children with knives and spears Sunday a gaining entry into the victims' homes by claiming to be Christmas singers, the Philippine Constabulary said today. menls resulted In the reels trants being granted illegal deferments." Hoover said those arrested today will be brought before a magistrate.

Conviction on the charge could result in sentences up lo five years in prison or fined 510,000 or both. Among those arrested were Willus Everett Vivian, about 49, a i employe and captain in the National a Willy Brilton 37, and Ken Cleveland, 51, both fulltime em- ployes and sergeants in the Illinois National Guard. Central Plains Hospital Rising PLAINVIEW "We're about one-third complete," is the progress report made by Noel Woodley, administrator for the Hale County Hospital Authority, on construction of Plainview's Si-million hospital. "We arc now pouring concrete on the third floor of the four- story building," Woodley said. Completion date for the Central Plains General Hospital has been set for March 1970.

The new hospital is being constructed at 24th and the Dimmitt Highway in the northwest portion of the city. The medical complex will also include mental health and mental retardation facilities. The new hospital will contain 1151 rooms, many of which will have attached a i Woodley said. How to say Merry Christmas in Canadian. DEPARTMENT STOKES 4 Now at this low, low price, you -s I can a 'ford to give several of n.

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