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The Amarillo Globe-Times from Amarillo, Texas • Page 71

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Man Charged In Shooting Lovett, 31, of 108 S. Harrison, was in Potter County Jail today in lieu of $3,000 bond, charged with assault with intent to murder in connection with the shooting of a 40-year-old Amarillo woman, Lovett was arraigned Tuesday before Justice of the Peace Cliff Roberts. victim, Mrs. Barbara Jean Jones, 40, of 304 W. 1st was reported in satisfactory condition today at Northwest Texas Hospital with a bullet wound in the stomach; "Mrs.

Vera Robinson Adams told police that she, Mrs. Jones and two men had been sitting in a car Saturday night in the 900 block of NW 4th when a man approached the After talking with Mrs. Jones less than a minute, he shot her, Mrs, Robinson said. Police, about hour afier the incident. Construction School Expansion Heavy equipment is at work at Tascosa High School.

3921 Westlawn, leveling the ground for a $502,000 construction project to be completed by September 1073. vocational-technical classrooms will be; added to the north wing, and a music complex will be built 1 behind the auditorium, said J. E. Fergason, principal. The "music complex -will consist of a choir room and a new band and orchestra room.

The current band room will be used as a drama room. Fergason said the drama department presently classes portable building. A building permit was' by the city to E. Taylor, 'general for construction of the two additions square feet. Plans were drawn by architect Jimmy E.

Bailey of Amarillo. NM Cliff Monument Closed Over Flood SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) The Gila Cliff Dsvellings National Monument in Southwestern New Mexico is closed to the public because of flood damage in last' weekend's heavy rains. Mark Moseley. acting superintendent of the monument, said Tuesday flood waters washed away part of a footbridge on the grounds, He said the extent of the damage cannot be determined until the water receded.

PutinCpffcje NUERNBERG, Germany have putting an epilepsy drug-in coffee that other soldi crs ill at an Army airfield near Nuernberg, a spokesman for the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment said--today. Pvts. William P. Wangen, 20. of New York City, and Robert E.

McCown, 20, of i i am, were charged with conspiracy and 18 counts of aggravated assault. The drugging occurred Oct. 16 at the Feuchat Army Airfield. The spokesman said DPH, or diphenylhydantoin, a drug used to treat epileptics, was pur in the, community coffee pot. All the men recovered within two days, and doctors said there would be no after-effects.

Department Stores We have slashed our Everyday Low Prices an additional During Our Great Yellow Tag Sale on Such Famous Names as: REMINGTON WINCHESTER MARLIN MOSSBERG COLEMAN ZEBCO THERMOS RAY-0-VAC MALLORY DAIWA BEAR BEN PEARSON GARCIA JOHNSON SOUTH BEND HEDDON WILSON MacGREGOR RAWLINGS BRUNSWICK SPALDING POLAROID KODAK MINOLTA BELL HOWELL GAF SYLVANIA JASON EMPIRE ROYAL rM THOUSANDS THOUSANDS OF ITEMS (excluding Fair Trade ifems) SHOP WOOLCO 2201 WESTERN ST. Wentern Plaza Shopping Center OPEN JO AM Sen) October rtij Amarillo Area Sam Ciay -Final Clay, 5 an engineer r' Santa way and an Amarillo" resident for 35 years, were set for 2 p.m. today in N. S. Griggs Pi oneer Chapel.

The Rev. Jack Sutton, pastor of North AmarjJlo Christian Church, was to I officiate. Rites we're to be conducted by Lodge 731, AFAM. tery. in Llano Jackie Shuns Campaign With Pell PROVIDENCE, R.I, (AP) Jacqueline-Onassis will not participate in a whistle-stop train tour with Sen.

Claiborne Pell, because the trip was publicized as her first public campaign activity since the death of President John F. Kennedy. Nancy Tuckerman, a spokesman for Mrs. Onassis, said Pell lad invited Mrs. Onassis to join him on a train sweep of Rhode on Saturday in behalf of his campaign.

Mrs. Onassis was to make slx the trip with Pell "just as sort Mrs. Alma Mason of a friend" and not for cam- paign purposes, Miss Tucker- Funerarrites 'for Mrs. Alma man said. But then the trip was Mason, 73.

of 1211 S. Buchanan, publicized as a campaign pro- were conducted this morning'in Griggs Pioner Chapel Dewey Foger'jon a Mr. Clay, owner of Clay's Antique Shop at 304-B N. Fjllmore, died Monday at the Santa Fe Hospital in Albuquerque. A native of Dallas, he was a member of North Amarillo Christian Church.

Surviving are his wife, Minnie Lee; a son, Rolan of the family home; two daughters, Mrs. Sammie Stark of the home and Mrs. Patsy Stover of San Diego; a brother, George of- 1000 N. Woodland; three sisters, Mrs, W. M.

Stephens of 111., Mrs. C. 0. Herndon of Browmvood and Mrs. Berl Daniels of Ruidoso, N.M., and employed as a'laborer Zan- chettin Trothers Terrazzo Tile Co.

and was a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. Surviving are his two children, Adrian, and Sabrina, both of the family home, and his'mother, Mrs. Dominga Benavidez, three brothers, Robert, Lawrence and Carlos, and five sisters, Mrs. Carmen Turru- biates, 'Mrs. Eliza Hernandez, Mrsl Juana Dacena, Mrs.

Vjr ginia Herrera and Miss Erma Benavidez, all of Phoenix Bun Lewis ram. 'She has tried to maintain with herself as a private person," Church of Christ minister, offi- Miss Tuckerman said. "If you elating. Burial was to be at 3 p.m. in the SJlverton Ceme- go out campaigning it puts different light on the situation." today The 'train trip, meanwhile, tery.

was canceled. Mrs. Mason, who died Mon- A spokesman for Pell said day in St. Anthony's Hospital, Mrs. Onasais "deeply regrets was born in Silverton.

the decision, "but she feels that her appearance in the cam paign could be detrimental as a Mrs. Bertha Gerdes of 1211, S. result of her recent court battle Buchanan, Mrs. Ray iCox of with New York City photogra- Wichita, Mrs. plier Ranald Galella, who has rett of San Antonio and Mrs.

F. nade a virtual career of shoot- C. Sides of Greeley, three Zepth Fogerson of Greeley, Dewey of 1211 S. court last July not to approach oe, Calif, vithin 100 yards of Mrs. Onassis' apartment or her chil- ja dren's schools to shoot ng pictures of Mrs.

Onassis three Zepth Fogerson and her family. of Greeley, Dewey of 1211 S. Galella was ordered by a Buchanan and Pat of'Lake-Tah- yards ady. from the former first Pat Gives Award To Blind Worker be conducted in Terrell under direction of Anderson-Clayton Funeral Home there. An Amarillo resident since Spur before she moved to Far- 1926, Mr.

Brazell died at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday in Northwest ex- as Hospital. He was born via tt iiJKinoec 01 isucnanan' 0 1 granucuuaren and First Street Lady'Pat Nixon said "It'rnade Survivors-include'a daughter, to eyes" when Edwards of the he "presented the blind-worker-of-the-year award" to' an Alabama woman. CMazelle -who 7 is totally blind, was one of 17 honored at he White House on "Tuesday vith some 225 represen'tatives of National Industries for the Blind and The General Council of Workshops For the Blind at- lending. Holding the gray" haired arm.

Mrs. saluted Mrs. an -expert seamstress, a in civic, happily married mother of two children. The citation presented Mrs Sullivan came with the annual Peter Salmon Award. Mrs.

Sullivan works as a full time seamstress at Alabama Industries for the one of S3 federally designated, workshops-for. the blind in 35 states. "I thank God for our country and for the opportunities that il affords" us," Mrs; Sullivan said after, receiving'the award. Search Resumes For 4 Hart Men PRICE.TJtah (AP)-Searchers hampered earlier by wea- Tuesday over Southeastern Utah in hope of finding some trace of a light lane in which four Texans dis appeared last week. A Utah Civil Air Patrol Spokesman said four CAP planes and Ihree private aircraft: went aloft.

The missing plane vanished Oct. 18 on a flight from Cortez, La-ke. the pilot, Harold McCollum, 53, a Church of Christ minister from Dimmitt. and J.C. Jackson, Mart Booe and C.

C. Hanes, all of Hart, Tex. The four were en route to Canada on church: business when the plane disappeared between Cortez and' Hanksville, Utah. 2 Youths Sought In Store Burglary Two youths were being sought by police today in connection with a break-in at the Nizzi Shpppe, 2619 Wolflin, Music onoppe, zi)ia in which guitars worth more than $1,200 were taken. The; break-in occurred about 0:30 p.m.

Tuesday. An employe at Furr's Cafeteria, 2638 told police she saw two young men break the front window and take the guitars. Two other witnesses in the area gave chase but were unable to catch the youths. This was the second time this year that the store, owned by A. E.

Nizzi, 3502 Lynettc, has been burglarized. In June, more than $1,300 worth ttf musical instruments was taken. Surviving are five sisters, Mrs. Anna Long of San Antonio Funeral services and burial or 610 in Texas and a member, Buchanan Pm today Wheeler of Washington; D.C., vn N.s. Gnggs Pioneer.Chapel, and nine grandchildren Funeral rites, are scheduled for 2:30 Thursday in St.

Mrs. R. E. Nunn is to at bSth services Burjal ig Cemetery. -Benavidez suffered massive brain hemorrhage, said hospital officials, A native -of Juarez, Mexico, PANHANDLE-Funeral serves for Mrs 1 R.

E. (Vada Mae) Nunn, 61, a retired secretary for the Atomic Energy Commission Pautex sched- uled at 2 p.m. Panhandle, First United Methodist Church. dent for years. He was Amarillo tli oarc T.r/1 itrnt.

i 1T1UI burial to be at ,11 a.m, Friday in Hazelwood Cemetery at Springfield, 1 by Smith Fu- Funeral Lewis, 78, services for of Yellville, Bun a'nd a former Amarillo resident, are pending with Christian Funeral Home at Harrison, Ark. Mr. Lewis, who moved from Amarillo about 25 years ago to ranch- at Glcnrio, N.M., died early Monday in Marion County Hospital in Yellville. lie had resided in Arkansas for 12 years. Surviving are his wife, Tommy, a son and several grandchildren.

Tri-State Area Mrs. Effie Johnson -FARWELL Last rites for Mrs, Effie Johnson, 95, a retired registered nurse and school teacher, were conducted Tuesday in First Baptist Church here. Officiating were the Rev. J. L.

Bass and Dr. Carl Scott, and burial xvas in Sunset Terrace Gardens Cemetery by Steed-Todd Funeral Home in Clovis, N.M. Mrs. Johnson, a resident here Clovis-nursing home. A graduate of the University of Colorado in Boulder, she had taught school in Eastland and well.

Survivors include a son. Dr. V. Scott Johnson of Clovis; a sister, Mrs. Aggie Marsh of Spur; 'three home; a Leland Slayton of Terrell; 'two brothers, J.

G. of 805 Forest-'and'Clifton of Miss Dixie 3razell- of '806 Forest, Mrs. Rone" Clark. 4 of'Bivins Memorial Nursing Home', Avanelle Johnson of JForth Worth and Mrs. Sally Inghram of Seagon- ville; five grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

i Local arrangements were 1 by Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors. Joe Benavidez A- prayer service for Joe Benavidez, 21, of 2400 who died early '-Tuesday morning in Northwest Texas'Hospital of injuries, suffered'last week in a neighborhood football game, DALHART Final rites, for: Luke Leon McBrayer.71, Hartley County justice of-the peace and a iDalhart 5 resident since 1943, will be held p.m. Thursday in' First "Christian Church here with Cecil Beaver, pastor, Burial "in Memorial Park Cemetery' will be" by Walker Funeral Home. A rancher for, 25, years, Mr. McBrayei 'died 7 early Tuesday in High Baptist Hospita'l m.

Amarillo. survivors are' his three daughters, Mrs. Betty Mercer of Here- Officiant was to be Rev. neral Home here. Mrs, Nunn, a here since 1953, died Monday in St.

Anthony's Hospital in Amarillo after a lengthy illness. She is survived by her husband, a son, two brothers, a sister and four grandchildren. Frank Kuns PANHANDLE--Funeral rites will be conducted at 10 a Thursday in White Deer Cemetery for Frank Kuns, 86, a Panhandle area resident for -53 years. The Rev. Melvin Roark of First United Methodist Church at White Deer is to officiate with burial-to be by Smith Funeral Home at Panhandle.

Mr. Kuns died Oct: 18 in Innsbruck, he and his wife, Mollie, were on a tour of Europe. He had been ill for four weeks. Surviving are his wife, two sisters and a brother. Mrs.

Mamie Springer MEMPHIS Funeral services were held this morning in First Baptist Church Chapel for Mrs. Mamie Springer, 75, a Memphis resident for 10 years. Officiating was the II Murphy, pastor, with burial in Fairview Cemetery under direction of Spicer Funeral Home. Mrs. Springer, who died at 7:30 p.m.

Monday in Cousins Nursing Home here, was a retired steam press operator for a laundry in Fort Worth before moving here. She is survived by a sister. Mrs. Lucille Jones of Chillicothe, a granddaughter, Mrs. Betty Hamrick of Kerrick.

and five great-grandchildren. Deaths Elsewhere Mrs. Charles (Lottie) Dunn J. Harold Dunn of 2400 S. Van Buren is in Dallas today to attend funeral services for his Mrs.

Charles A. (Lottie) Dunn, Oakcliff, who' died Tuesday morning at Methodist Hospital in Qafccliff. Services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Thursday in Lamar Smith Chapel in will be in Restland Cemetery at Dallas. Mrs.

Dunn is also survived by five grandchildren' and seven great-grandchildren, Dogs, Cats'Sold For Med Studies sister, Mrs. Purcell Pledges To Stress Record Records of U.S. Purcell and Bob Price- will be up for comparison during the next few days. Purcell. of Wichita Falls, Price's opponent- for re-election from" the 13th Congressional District, said, "I have been willing from the outset to accept this as a unique opportunity to spell put for voters the real choices in, this election.

"And since he is not, I am going to put both records--his and mine--squarely on' the in the remaining days of this campaign." 'Purcell said there are numerous instances' in which Price, of Pampa, has failed to represent either the views or Jjcst interests of his constituents. "I will detail these in a sc- ries of releases over the next few days, 1 Purcell said. The releases will deal only with facts of the records of the -two congressmen and deal with personalities, he "What explanation has Bob Price offered for the fact that he has never--not once in his six years in Congress--passed a smgle bill?" Purccll said. "He.has introduced a near record of 250, but most dealt with foreign policy or some international issue having absolutely nothing to do with the economy of Northwest Texas." Purccll said Price has refused free time offers by two Amarillo television stations for a joint appearance. Policeman Resigns To Serve His Church Dave Griffin, 33, formerly of Potter-Randall Metro Intelligence Unit, has traded in his handcuffs and badge for a Bible and a pulpit, Griffin, an 11-year veteran of: law finished work Tuesday, his last day with the city police.

He will now devote full time to the County Baptist Church, 4857 Buck in Pleasant Valley, where he is pastor. He has been- a licensed preacher for nearly two years and was ordained as a Baptist minister last January. "The whole idea is to-go' back to the country" church idea where people really had fellowship-'' Griffin-said several mowhs ago when the church opened, "It's not going to be a big fancy church, just a country one." Griffin has been an assistant police chief in Portales, N.M.,' an undercover agent and. intelligence officer in Amarillo. He joined the police department here in 1968.

"My past field has been in narcotics work," Griffin said. "I want to try to attract the abusers who are hopelessly, physically or psychologically addicted to drugs. I believe this is the only answer. I've been involved in all types of educational programs, and I've found this (religion) was the answer I was looking And a of young people are finding this out." TUCSON 1 Ariz. (AP) About 1,300 unwanted dogs and ot cats have been sold "'during the ld past year for medical research purposes, the head-of.

the pima County. Rabies Control Center said Tuesday. Lloyd Orsboni emphasized that only those animals doomed to die were sold to such institutions as the University of Arizona, the Veterans Administration Hospital or the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks AFB in Money received from the sales, estimated at $9.707 by Ursborn, was used to operate the dog pound. The director of the UA Animals "Resources Laboratory. Dr.

Samuel Hodcsson, said much of the research conducted on animals benefits the animals as well as human He cited a current UA project which involves the testing of different types of suture materials for various operations. Ofthose animals not sold. Orsborn estimated more than 10,000 were destroyed during the past year for various reasons." Butcher Is Suing Vatican on Closing VATICAN CITY (AP) Ltiigi Fedeli, butcher to Popes is suing the Vatican. "The Vatican closed Fedcli's butcher shop last April and took over direct management of his delicatessen. Now he has gone to court claiming the Holy Sec owes him $259,720 in back salary and for unpaid bills.

"I have worked honestly for 21 years and always under the imposition of a medieval nature," he said in a newspaper interview. "Enough is enough." The Vatican appointed Fc- dcli's father papal butcher in 1933 and as a boy the son worked in the shop when Pius XI was Pope. Fedeli said the Pope he knew best was John XXIII, who was an expert on Parmesan cheese. "One time he called the shop personally to say that he preferred another type of Parmesan," Fedeli recalled. In one section of Cairo Egypt, 200.000 persons visit a central place every morning and sell fruits and.

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