Corsicana Daily Sun from Corsicana, Texas • Page 11

Obituaries Ollie Adkinson Mrs. Houston Mrs. Armstrong Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Monday at the Mount Zion Baptish Church for Ollie Adkinson, who died Friday at his home in Goodlowe Park near Kerens. The Rev.

C.L. Jones will officiate. Burial will be in the Collidge Community Cemetery under direction of Scott Funeral Home. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Emmaline Adkinson of Goodlowe Park, three sons, one daughter, five step-children, two sisters, nine grandchildren and 22 step-grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Eva Houston, 97, who died Saturday night in Marlin, are pending at Griffin Funeral Home. Burial will be at Oakwood Cemetery. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Milton Weakley of Corsicana, Mrs.

L.M. Cantrell of El Paso, and Mrs. N.S. Burr of Marlin; a grandson and three great- grandsons. Mrs.

Houston was the widow of Dr. Trim Houston of Corsicana. Mrs. Mayfield Betts Funeral services are set for 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church for Mrs.

Emma Mayfield, 74, who died Thursday in Memorial Hospital. The Rev. James Chaney will officiate. Burial will be in Woodland Cemetery. Arrangements are with Scott Funeral Home.

She had been a resident of Corsicana for 50 years. Surviving are a son, George Washington of Dallas; a granddaughter, Mrs. Dorothy Sanders of Ennis; four sisters, Mrs. Mattie Mae Brown of Los Angeles, Mrs. Josephine McGinnis of Ft.

Wayne, Mrs. Gertrude Adams of Toledo, Ohio, and Mrs. Liza Jones of Detroit, and three brothers, Roosevelt Mikel, Mack Mikel and John Henry Newson, all of Corsicana. Funeral services for Jim Betts, 84, Corsicana, are set for 1 p.m. Sunday at the Roane Chapel Baptist Church in Corsicana with the Rev.

J.J. Johnson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Hopewell Cemetery in Fairfield. Arrangements are with Calhoun Funeral Home. Surviving are his widow, Mrs.

Bertha Betts, Corsicana; two daughters, Mrs. Minnie Cloud, Kerens, and Mrs. Mary Grant, Winkler; seven sons, Norman Betts, Los Angeles, J.W. Betts, Casa Grande, Joseph Betts, Corsicana; Tas Betts, Wortham; Robert Betts, Fairfield; Ernest and Jimmy Betts, Kerens; and a number of grandchildren. Grandsons will be pallbearers.

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Evelyn Armstrong, who died Saturday at leisure Lodge, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Griffin Funeral Home. C. B.

Holcomb, minister, will officiate. Burial will follow at Dresden. Mrs. Armstrong was a member of the Second Avenue Baptist Church. She is survived by four sons, L.K.

Garrison of Orange, Earl Armstrong of Tulsa, L.C. Armstrong and Bruce Armstrong, bot of Houston; and two daughters, Mrs. lassie Wooten of Blooming Grove and Mrs. Pearl Selinger of Tulsa, Okla. Other survivors include a brother, Willard Staggs of Corsicana; four sisters, Miss Clara Staggs of Corsicana, Mrs.

Ben Melton and Mrs. J.M. Dixon, both of Blooming Grove, and Mrs. Elsie Gorham of Burkbumett; 11 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Funeral arrangemnets are being handled by Griffin Funeral Home.

Corsicana Daily Sun, Sunday, Dec. 16, Simon Says People Cooperate 's Big Goose WASHINGTON (AP) Energy boss William E. Simon said he gave President Nixon a very optimistic report Saturday on solving energy problems because American people are caught up in this Simon, head of the new Federal Energy Office, said the cooperation of the American people and industry will be reflected in future statistics. really believe we are on the upbeat as far as reduction Unauthorized substitution in the migrating game joins the team over Wisconsin's Horizon National Wildlife Refuge. A National Wildlife Service plane crew was making a periodic check of the number of Canada geese passing over the preserve on the journey south.

(NEA Photo) Mexicans Riot Christmas S. Alexander G.V. Lepik Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Church of Christ in God in Frost for Saint Alexander, 69, Frost, who died Tuesday in the Hillsboro Hospital. Burial was in Brushie Prairie Cemetery.

Arrangements were with Calhoun Funeral Home in Corsicana. Surviving are his widow, a daughter, a son and several grandchildren. W. D. Clemons Funeral services for Willie Doyle Clemons, 78, 301 E.

15th are set for 2 p.m. Sunday at the Silent Grove Baptist Church in Cheneyboro. Burial will be in the Silent Grove Cemetery. Arrangements are with the Ross and Johnson Mortuary. Surviving are his widow, Mrs.

Blanche Clemons, Corsicana; a step-daughter, Mrs. Ruby Thompson, Dallas; two brothers, William Clemons, Kerens, and Andrew Clemons, Emhouse; three sisters, Mrs. Fleecy White, Corsicana, Mrs. Luegerthia Rhoe, Cheneyboro, and Mrs. Elizabeth Pondesker, Dallas; and other relatives.

Funeral services for Gerome V. Lepik 53, who died Friday night in Memorial Hospital, will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Rev. John Fowler will officiate, with burial to follow at Hamilton Cemetery.

Maurice McElroy will assist Rev. Fowler at full military services to be held at the graveside. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Griffin Funeral Home. Lepik, a native of Hallettsville, was a veteran of World War n. He live at 1120 West 12th Ave.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Joyce Lepik, two daughters, Lillie Lepik and Lori Lepik, all of Corsicana; and his father, Gerome V. Lepik Sr. of East Bernard. Other survivors include three sisters, Mrs.

Mary Kosik and Mrs. Emily Zahradnik, both of East Bernard, and Mrs. lilie Talifuse of Victoria; and a number of nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Herman Deavers, Jo Joe Clark, V. A.

French, Bobby Massengale, Bill Salimon and Thomas Walker. At Football Game MEXICO CITY (AP) One girl was killed and 36 other persons were injured in violence that broke out Saturday night following an American-style football game here the Red Cross said. The girl was killed by either a Molotov cocktail which struck her on the head or a thrown during fighting among rival students of the National University and the National Polytechnic Institute whose teams played at University Stadium. Polytechnic won 19-13. Injuries included bruises, fractures, burned persons hit by Molotov cocktails or firecrackers and stabbed youths, the Red Cross said.

Train Explosion Injures Ten BORGER, Tex. (AP) Two rolling fireballs sparked by a leaky railroad tank car filled with liquid propane gas injured at least 10 people, including five firemen, and damaged several homes in the southeast section of this Panhandle city Saturday afternoon. The injured firemen were standing by with their equipment while workers were transferring gas from a leaky tank to a second car. The two cars, owned by Phillips Petroleum, had been involved in a derailment earlier in the day Wheat will grow at the. equator as well as the Arctic Circle.

Continued from page 1 finement) forced you to revert to the spirit and you could transcend the miles, just as though you were said Coker. a fantastically powerful Air Force Col. Quincy Collins of Atlanta said some of his seven prison Christmases were actually memorable. think of all of them, 1972 in said the tall, balding officer. Christmas, I was writing all of the Christmas songs I could think of on toilet paper.

It was all we had. used sharpened bamboo sticks for pens or fish bones. We made ink by grinding up diarrhea pills it made great red said Collins. I mixed that with some blue foot medicine and got a new color The flier said he was rehearsing groups of fellow POWs in singing when the guards came in 10 days before Christmas and took everything. of man hours had been involved in all that, so I worked day and night until Christmas Eve, reproducing the music.

When the guards heard us singing, they climbed up, looked into our cells and shook their But they let the POWs finish their service. Through ingenuity and hanging onto scraps of tinfoil or boxes, the prisoners made Christmas gifts and trees. Navy Cmdr. Richard A. Stratton of Palo Alto, a prisoner six years, recalls one C.

Burleson Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Friday at the Concord Church in Concord for Clifford L. Burleson, 68, Corsicana, who died Wednesday at Evergreen Nursing Home. The Rev. David Hale officiated.

Burial was in the Concord Cemetery with Corley Funeral Home conducting. Nephews were pallbearers. Surviving are two sisters. E. Lansford Funeral services were at 2 p.m.

Saturday at the Corley Funeral Home Chapel for Elmore 68, Richland, who died Thursday in Wortham. The Rev. Walter Goodnight and Rev. Dale Rider officiated. Burial was in the Richland Cemetery.

He had resided in Richland 48 years and operated a grocery store and service station there for many years. Surviving are his widow; a son, Raymond Pittman, Richland; a daughter, Mrs. Oneta Farmer, Fort Worth; five grandchildren; his mother, Mrs. J.C. Lansford, Richland; two brothers, Bay lansford, Maypearl, and Guy lansford, Richland; two sisters, Mrs.

Alton Eddins, Corsicana, and Mrs. Frank Dickson, Irving; and several nieces and nephews. Pallbearers were Bob Dickson, Paul Lansford, Charles Cofer, Charles Ray, Don Farmer, Joel Sikes and Clifford Dailey. Mrs. Meador Funeral arrangements for Mrs.

Mary Elizabeth Meador, 79, of Corsicana, are pending at Corley Funeral Home. She died Saturday night at Convalescent Home. HEAL Do your holiday shopping in comfort this seacon. Instead of fig! traffic to get to the city where you'll have to fight crowds, Lesiure Corner, where you'll find friendly clerks ready to wait on you at all times. Get the most enjoyment out of shopping here! mjiM APPAREL GIFTS Seven Points, Tex Shopping Center Hvvv, 274 South 214 432-2456 Christmas well.

been crying about maltreatment so I landed up in a room 7 (feet) by he said. Christmas they usually fed you pretty well, so they gave me a whole package of cookies. wanted to make them last three weeks. Instead, I ate them all in three hours. I remember thinking, God in solitary and have to share The pert, blonde wife of Lt.

Cmdr. Halyburton said this Christmas, her first with her husband in eight years, will be eight Christmases packed in Halyburton, first reported killed in action, has in his back yard the tombstone used to mark his grave in his home town of Davidson, N.C. His status was later changed to missing. More than 1,200 men are listed as missing, and Halyburton noted the plight of their families. As a prisoner, Dennis Chambers spent 5 years in the camp known as the Hanoi Hilton.

As a victim of the energy crisis, he is destined for the ranks of the American unemployed. The former Air Force captain, from Upper Saddle River, N.J., is one of 360 pilots to be laid off by Eastern Air Lines Jan. 31. But not bitter. A Texarkana man, Dennis Summers, turned in to Police Sgt.

Neal Baggett early Saturday $2.15 in nickels he said spewed out of an vending machine when he had difficulty getting a soft He related he was washing his clothes at Chat laun- dramat, M. 24th St. at W. First about 1 a.m. when he put money in the machine but got no drink nor his money back until he hit the machine and the coin release tripped pouring out $2.15 in nickels.

He brought the money to police headquarters. Detective Ted Warren investigated the theft of a purse reported by Mrs. Margie Middleton of Dawson. Mrs. Middleton said her purse, containing $100 in cash and a $100 check, was stolen out of a shopping cart as she shopped Friday in the United Dollar Store here.

Police found no suspect when answering a prowler call at 10:39 p.m. Friday at 701 S. 15th where Rhonda Conner reported she was awakened by a prowler pulling on a window screen. Officers Gary Snowden and Wallace Wigfall searched the area. At 1:40 a.m.

Saturday, Officers Clyde Pendergraph and Allen Carraway investigated a report of a suspicious car parked in front of 910 N. Eighth St. Police said on arrival they found Elizabeth Cleland of Dallas, who was waiting in her car for a brother to return home. Corsicana firemen answered a fire alarm at 10:40 a.m. Saturday to 14 0 E.

Sixth where a grease flashfire on a kitchen stove had been extinguished by occupants before they arrived. Firemen answered a call at 2:57 p.m. Saturday to 1522 Sycamore where a short circuit burned out a television set, Fireman Douglas Fogg reported. on demand of critical commodities are he said. are going to win this one.

I am very Simon said the President characterized the emergency energy bill, passed at 1 a.m. Saturday with dozens of amendments, as "a basket The energy czar said that while both the House and Senate versions of the bill have problems is obvious that a House version with that number of amendments we just could not The two bills will go Monday to a conference committee which Simon hopes can write a compromise bill by Thursday. He said the two versions have mere 200 points of Simon said he and the President also discussed the long- haul truckers who have complained about price gouging, low speed limits and diesel fuel shortages. Truck drivers will receive 110 per cent of the fuel they used in 1972 under the new allocations, certainly should assist them a great Simon said. He noted that the Internal Revenue Service conducted spot checks of service stations last weekend and certainly believe and hope that will take care of the price gouging problem." The field force in the fuel allocation area has been doubled to 600 people in the last 10 days, Simon said.

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