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THE HAMMOND TIMES Thursday, December 31, 19W Page B-t Weather: Nation, Area Calumet Region Obituaries 2 Escapees Nabbed in Evansville 'Arson' Inquiry Laffsinsf Matoski Fulavtcr McGaughev Mrs. Edith McGaughey. 74, of i Mike Matt Matoski, 62, of 7137! Services will be at 9 a.m. Sat- 2533 Highway Highland, Howard Hammond, died urday in the Prusiecki Funeral died today in St. Margaret Hos-j Wednesday in St.

Margaret Hos-'Home, 3831 Main St. East Chi- ROCKPORT, Ind. (AP) Two pjtal. pital. icago, tor Mrs.

Rose Fulayter, 51, Surviving are her husband, Wil- Services will be Saturday at! Ontario Haimnona. teen-agers charged with first-degree murder were back in Spencer County Jail today after les than 12 hours of freedom. A requiem mass will be sung liara; two daughters, Evelyn Mc 8 a.m. in Clareance J. Huber Funeral Home, 722 165th Hammond.

The Rev. John Bart will HAMMOND Fire inspectors today reported no progress in their arson inquiry into a blaze which ruined a downtown plumb Gaughey of Highland and Mrs. Vincent M. French of Charleston, Evansville police seized Robert ing store. S.

Hall, 14, Hatfield, and Steve W. Everett, 15, Richland, in a S. a sister, Mrs. Elma Ritz of sing the requiem mass at 8:30 Highland; a brother, Emil in St. John Bosco Church, mann in Michigan, four grand- Burial will be in St.

John Cem-children and one great grand- etery, Hammond. The investigation has been ham pered by inability to find a wit at 9:30 a.m. by the Rev. Joseph Sipos in the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Hammond. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Calumet City.

Mrs. Fulayter died Wednesday in St. Catherine Hospital. Friends may call at the chapel today from 7 to 10 p.m. and Friday from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 p.m.

ness who was reported to have child. overheard a suspicious conversation between two men at Ham 10WEST VcOOLVvCy' COOl mond Plumbing Supply 547 State St. The investigators canvassed Willow Court in back of the Surviving are two nieces, Mrs. Ann DeRolf of the Roseland section, Chicago, and Mrs. Jennie Uhercik of Burnham.

Mr. Matoski was employed in the Hammond Civic Center. He was a veteran of World -War I. He was a member of the Mohawk Club. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 7 to 10 p.m.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Fagen Funeral Gardens, 2828 Highway Highland. The Rev. Herman McCoy of 1 the Highland Presbyterian Church will officiate. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.

Friends may call at the chapel after 7 p.m. today and from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 p.m. Friday. stolen car Wednesday, The youths escaped jail by pry-ing loose a padlock. They were held in a first-floor cell, segregated from two regular cell blocks on the second floor because of their ages.

The pair was indicted in the Dec 4 slaying of Everett's father, Thomas, 50. Authorities said Steve led them to his father's body in a strip mine pit near Hatfield. They quoted the youth as saying Hall fired a 16-gauge shotgun at the senior Everett and both boys dumped the body in the pit. burned out store but were unable to find a trace of the missing Also See Death Notices, First Classified Page WEATHER FOTOCAST witness. "He's all we have to go on," i declared Chief Fire Inspector Leo Sartoris.

Gronek Services for Vincent Si Gronek, and Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. and' Sartoris said no evidence of FAI3 7 to 10 p.m. Bednarz tt mtziwMiacauiET arson was found in the rubble. He added: 65, will be at 9 a.m. Saturday from the J.

J. Thompson Funeral Home, 1718 W. 63rd Chicago. Randall Requiem mass will be sung at 9:30 a.m. in St.

Theodore Church, FORECAST Rain will fall over the Pacific northwest while rain mixed with snow is forecast for the northern and central plateau, and upper and mid-Mississippi Valley through portions of the Ohio Valley. Milder temperatures will prevail over the great basin and southern plateau while colder temperatures will prevail over the plains eastward into the Ohio Valley. "Until such time as the witness comes forth and furnishes reliable information to the contrary, the theory that the fire was incendiary in nature will have to be discounted." That such a man exists who claims to have overheard the arsonists has been verified by a 62nd Street and South Paulina, Chicago. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Calumet City. Nowak Funeral Home, 400 Road, Calumet City, is in Funeral services for Frank Bednarz, 49, of 128 155th PL, Calumet City, will be Monday.

Services will be at 9:30 a.m. fr6m Nowak Funeral Home, 400 Pulaski Rd. The Rev. Edward Krakowski will sing requiem mass at 10 a.m. in St.

Andrew Chirch. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Calumet City. Mr. Bednarz was an employe of American Oil Whiting. He was a member of John J.

Pershing Post 428 of the American Legion, The post will hold memorial services at n. 6Tvr -V Mrs. Blanche Randall, 60, of 2456 Mount Gary, died Tuesday in St. Catherine Hospital. Survivors are six sons, Billy and Max of Gary, Charles and George of Hammond, Dewey of Hobart, Thomas, stationed with the U.S.

Army in Louisiana; a daughter, Dorothy, at home; mother, Mrs. Cora Lee South; four brothers, Hoyt J. Cothran, Asheville, N.C., Jimmy and Dol-ton, of Toccoa, Roy, of Temperatures TEMPERATURES 1 p.m. 45 9 p.m. 48 5 a.m.

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iJimisitr j.ciik jn new icars charge of arrangements. Friends may call at the Thompson Funeral Home after 7 p.m. todav. Hammond patrolman, Sartoris New Tax Law PANAMA (AP) President Marco A. Robles as signed a law cutting taxes on incomes up to $5,000 a year and increasing taxes on the higher brackets.

said. The policeman said the unidentified man told him. he heard service in Suburban Bible Church. He will talk on "The Saviour's Many Crowns" at the 7 p.m. service.

Mr. Gronek, of 6544 S. Hoyne Chicago, died Tuesday. Details were in Wednesday's Times. HIGHLAND "A Nev Year's Benediction" will be the subject of a sermon by the Rev.

T. Fletcher, at the 11 a.m. Sunday someone just before the fire was discovered shouting: "Let's get out of here; we've got it going jLovonia, four sisters, Mrs. 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

Gladys Price, of Martin, good." Friends may call at the ri.j jcj JMrs. Viola Batson, of Toccoa, home Saturday and Sunday fnrni; 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m. 1 Killed In Wreck N.C., Mrs. Auzilee Collins, of An The man said he was in his apartment behind the store at the time.

When asked for his name and address he told the policeman he derson, S.C.and 10 grandchildren, Services will be at 10 a.m. Mietll "If i Saturday in the Virgil Huber Fu had already given the informa tion to another officer. EAST HAZEL CREST -A Har neral Home, 7051 Kennedy Hammond. The Rev. C.

W. Fisk vey woman was kliled Wednes W7 MA will officiate. Burial will be in The patrolman didn't press the matter, presuming that the other officer already had the necessary day and two other persons, in Elmwood Cemetery, Hammond eluding her husband, were injured in a headon crash on Halsted near identification. Friends may call from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 p.m. today and Fri Otto Miedl, 6l, of Rt.

3, Cedar Lake, died Wednesday. A resident of Cedar Lake for 20 years, he was a member of the Methodist Church in Cedar Lake, the National Rifle Association and Carpenter's Local 599. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Alice Harvey of Cedar Lake, and Joan, at home; two sons, Despite the lack of evidence 173rd St. Dead is Mrs.

Ethel Stanley, 51, day. the arson investigation is continuing, Sartoris said. Mrs. Randall had been a Gary of 15717 Emerald Ave. She was resident for six years a passenger in a car driven by for replenishing the coin supply! An estimated $100,000 damages was caused by the fire Dec.

13 in the one-story plumbing store in a block-long row of business her husband, Olney, 59. He was treated for facial cuts in Ingalls Stillson Otto Jr. of Griffith and Charles Gary; a sister, Mrs. Hel Memorial Hospital, Harvey. John Schmueckle, 28, of 9222 S.

establishments. Mrs. Lucy M. Stillson, 68, of 201 Firemen succeeeded in keeping en. Pippin fo Texas; two brothers, Edward of Williams Bay, Wis.

and George of Cleveland, and 11 grandchildren. Houston Chicago, driver of the other car, was injured and is listed in critical condition in the the flames from spreading to the adjoining stores. North West Crown Point, died Wednesday at her home. A lifelong resident of the Crown Point area, Mrs. Stillson was a member of the First Methodist hospital.

Services will be Saturday at 11- a.m. in the Eller-Brady Funeral Home, Cedar Lake, with State Police said Stanley's car was southbound and Schmueckle's Church, Women's Society of Chris northbound on Halsted Street. Blood Bank Accredited tian Service and the Royal Neighbors. Rev. Earl Saxe officiating.

Burial will be in Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens, Schererville. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m today. Surviving are her husband, Irvin; two sons, Milford and Don GARY Methodist Hospital's blood bank has been accredited ald, both of Crown Point; a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Cassaday of 1 Injured In Smashup by the American Association of Blood Banks. The action means Crown Point; three brothers, Earl the blood bank is equaling or ex Vallee of Gary, George of Cedar eeedinff the reauirements of the Lake and Harold of Creston.

ni(jtiwiNU a Higniana man i association was seriously injured early this Woman Hit By Train Also surviving are four sisters, Mrs. Ruth Theis of Lowell, Mrs. A 1 1 a Burnham and Mrs. Blanche Bennett, both of Creston, and Mrs. Mary Hatch of East Chicago, and 12 grandchildren.

morning when a car he was driving collided with a truck-trailer on U.S. 41 near Ridge Road. Robert F. Gardner, 43, of 3022 Martha St. was taken to St.

Margaret Hospital with head injuries. Armchair investors: Participate im King Arthur development of Leasing. $36,000 minimum investment. 8 cash retsrs piss 8 ttfntr crowta, RILEY MANAGEMENT 407 S. Mannheim Road HAMMOND An Illinois woman's right leg was severed by a Services will be at 1 p.m.

Saturday in the Merriam Funeral Btllwood Phone 547-9300 train early today. Emily Petterson, 69, of 32 First Home, Crown Point, with the Rev, Bloomingdale, is reported P. J. Hamilton officiating. Burial will be in Calumet Park Cemetery.

Friends may call after 7 p.m The truck driver, Eugene Hull, 36, of Angola, was unhurt. Police said Gardner drove his auto from a restaurant parking lot about 12:10 a.m., on to the highway, colliding with the northbound truck. Both the truck and auto skidded across the highway and Gardner's car crashed into a parked car in the restaurant 7A lot. The parked auto, owned by Virgil Wagner, 36, of 3129 Duluth in poor condition by St. Margaret Hospital authorities.

police said the woman was apparently trying to cross the Erie Lackawanna Railroad yrds in Hammond. She was hit bw train number 509. The engineer was William Herrman, 3233 Eder Highland. Dennis Hilton, a railroad employe, told police he saw the hit by the train. He notified police.

Miss Petterson, was visiting a sister, Drs. John Stopper, 228 Ogden St. Police said she left her sister's home about 4:30 a.m. today. Mrs.

Stopper and a neighbor had been looking for her when the accident occurred. Highland, was not occupied. today. Stilin Services for Frank Stilin of 1340 Lakeview Whiting, will be at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in the Baran Funeral Home, 1235 119th Whiting.

The Rev. Herman J. Miller -will sing the requiem mass in Sacred Heart Church at 9 a.m. Burial will be in St. John Cemetery, Hammond.

Mr. Stilin died Tuesday in St. Margaret Hospital. Details were in Wednesday's Times. Train Just Misses Car HAMMOND An 'unidentified motorist narrowly escaped collid Your response to our pica for coins -vras terrific Over in coins of all denominations "were turned in to our i3 offices.

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