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a Texas Deaths Rites Set Today For James Miller ATHENS (Spl.) Funeral services for James Miller, 53, of LaRue, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the LaRue Baptist Church. The Rev. James Fortner, will officiate. will be in LaRue Cemetery under the direction of Hassell Foster Funeral Home of Atheiler died Sunday in a Jacksonville hospital after a short illness.

was born in Mexia and bade been a resident of LaRue about three years. Mr. Miller was a retired employe of the Dow do Chemical Co. at Freeport and member of the LaRue Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.

Pauline Miller of LaRue; one son, Billy Wayne Miller of Malakoff; two daughters, Mrs. Joyce Jones of New Iberia, and Mrs. Dell Young of LaRue; his mother, Mrs. Frances Miller of Angleton; one brother, Alfred Miller of Freeport; two halfbrothers, Cecil Miller of Marshall and Jack Miller of Shreveport, three sisters, Mrs. Annie Laura Silvie of Henderson, Mrs.

Josei Nickles of Angleton and Mrs. B. 0. Alexander of Freeport; and six grandchildren. J.

F. Snyder OVERTON Funeral services for. Jess F. Snyder of 1021 IN. Greenland Hills Tyler, are set at 3 p.m.

Tuesday the Pearson Funeral Chapel in and the Rev. Arthur Williams Overton. 'The Rev. Charles Shine will officiate. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery.

Mr. Snyder died Sunday afternoon in a Tyler hospital after suffering an apparent heart attack. A retired pumper with Humble Oil and Refining where he has worked 30 years, he resided in Overton most of his life. He moved to Tyler shortly after retirement. He was a member of the Liberty Hill Methodist Church where he served on the Board of Stewards.

A verteran of World War he was a member of the Overton American Legion He was a native of Lebanon, Mo. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lula Synder; four sons, Ralph Snyder South America, James Snyder of Chula Vista. Kenneth Synder of Houston, and Phil Snyder of Odessa; a daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Lyle; two stepsons, Bob Center of Tyler and Doug Matthews of Houston; a sister, Mrs.

Lydia Lomeick of Marrero, 10 grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. Pallbearers include Raymond F. M. Adair, Charles Love, W. F.

Millington, and S. T. McGlathery. Mrs. Cogburn JACKSONVILLE Funeral services for Mrs.

Minnie V. Cogburn, 88, of Jacksonville, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Brown Memorial Chapel with the Rev. J. R.

Glasscock officiating. Burial will in be Rusk in County Old Shiloh Cemetery Mount Enterprise. Mrs. Cogburn died Sunday in a Jacksonville hospital after a short illness. She had been a resident of Jacksonville for 50 years and was a member of Sunset Baptist Church.

Survivors include one sisterin-law, Mrs. A. R. Bullard of Mount Enterprise; six nieces, Mrs. Charlie Hammons of Jacksonville, Mrs.

E. C. Feazell of Nacogdoches, Mrs. Charlie Lay of Corpus Christi. Mrs.

A. B. Langford and Mrs. R. A.

Thomas, both of Houston, and Mrs. Charlie Mack Smith of Monahans; and three nephews, Robert A. Bullard of Tyler, Floyd V. Bullard of Daingerfield and Fred R. Bullard of Jacksonville.

Pallbearers will be Luman Holman, George Bagley, Johnny McAnally, J. W. Hamilton, J. Mack Swink and Sam Hammons. T.

E. Malpass PALESTINE Funeral servIces for Thomas E. Malpass, 89, of Rt. 1, Elkhart, will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Hassell Foster Funeral Home Chapel with James Medford and the Rev.

Otis Felton officiating. Burial will be in the Cedar Creek Cemetery. Mr. Malpass died Monday morning in a Palestine pursing home after a long illness. A native of Dudley, England, he was a shop employe for a railroad company before his retirement.

He was member of the Church of Christ. Survivors include two nephews, H. G. Vincent of Palestine and John C. Vincent of Elkhart; and one niece, Mrs.

Warren Neel, also of Elkhart. Mrs. Jones MINEOLA Funeral services for Mrs. Louvenia Jones, 90, of Mineola, are scheduled at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in St.

Paul Baptist Church in Mineola. Burial will be in Mineola City Cemetery, under Funeral the Home. direction Mrs. Jones died Friday in a Tyler hospital after a long illness. A native of Smith County, Mrs.

Life On Mars Probability, Chief AF Scientist Says SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI)Life on Mars is a probability rather than a possibility, according to the chief scientist. of the Air Force School cine. In a half tongue-in-cheek, halfserious speech Monday night, Dr. Hubertus Strughold offered several unorthodox and controversial theories about the universe.

Dr. Strughold prefaced his speech, prepared for delivery at the sixth annual meeting of the Working Group on Extraterrestrial Resources, by saying the theories were "not in accord with present generally accepted ones, but should not be ignored because they might be correct after all." The top Air Force doctor said if life does exist on Mars, it might be a hardy micro-organism- stimulated by weak ultra violet and X-ray radiation that pelts the "red living despite the martian atmosphere of carbon dioxide, possibly nourished by underground oceans. Other far-out concepts he talked about included: The possibility that the earth is expanding, causing its continents to break apart. Strughold said this might be caused by a decrease in the force of gravity that started almost billion years ago. C.

C. Chelf Rites Today Funeral services for Charles C. Chelf, 70, of Rt. 4, Tyler, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Burks-Walker-Tippit Funeral Chapel with the Rev.

Tilson Maynard officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mr. Chelf died Sunday in local hospital after suffering an apparent. heart attack.

A native of Princeton, he had resided here the past 32 years. He was a veteran of World War I. member of the American Legion, First Baptist Church, Boone Bible Class, and Knights of Pythias. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Erva Mae Chelf; two sons, Jack Chelf of Tyler and Charles C.

Chelf Jr. of Borger; two daughters, Mrs. Bonnie Meeks of Dallas and Mrs Dorothy Culwell of Fort Worth; five brothers, Dewey Chelf of Tyler, Walter Chelf Athens, Roy Chelf of New Boston, G. L. Chelf of Texarkana, and Jack Chelf of Texarkana; and a sister, Mrs.

J. C. Durham of Texarkana. Pallbearers will be A. C.

Snow, Bert Edward Reeves, Charles Muller, Robert W. Culwell and Donald Ray McCoy, William 0. Mitchell. members of Honorary pallbearers, will be Class of the First Baptist Church and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Pallbearers will be A.

C. Snow, Donald Ray McCoy, Charles Muller, P. H. Wrotenberry, Truman Byrd, James Curry, James Meek and Burt Reeves. Funeral Slated Here Today For W.

H. Attaway Funeral services for Willis H. Attaway, 57, of Rt. 1, Tyler, are scheduled at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Lloyd James Funeral Chapel with the Rev.

B. 1 L. Greene and the Rev. J. R.

Goodwin officiating. Burial will be in Colfax Cemetery. in Attaway Zandt died County. Sunday in local hospital after a brief illness. A native of Van Zandt County, he had resided here the past 17 years.

He operated the concession at East Texas Tuberculosis Hospital. He was a member of the First Assembly of God Church where he was a deacon and a member of the building committee. He worked under the State Commission for the Blind and was a member of the Texas Federation for the Blind. While residing in Wright City, he was a teacher and Sunday school superintendent at the First Assembly of God Church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Mattie Bell Attaway; three sons, Freddie R. Attaway and Jimmy W. Attaway, both of Tyler and Tom D. Attaway of Baltimore, three sisters, Mrs. Lora Crim' of Van, Mrs.

Adine Glover of Bullard and Mrs. Florine Peyton of Lamesa; and five grandchildren. Pallbearers include Reginald Pannell Robert Glover, Don Glover, Wade Glover, Woodrow Lyles, and Victor Kay. Honorary pallbearers are Rue T. Wyatt, Collie Wyatt, Joe Yancy, John Harris Ted Taylor, Fred Freeman, Herbert Reese and W.

B. Odom. CPA Chapter Slates Program KILGORE The East Texas Chapter of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants will host Internal Revenue Service personnel at a monthly meeting scheduled for Tuesday at the Community Inn in Kilgore. John L. Byrne Jr.

of Dallas, assistant chief of the audit division of the Internal Revenue Service, will speak on "IRS About 125 IRS personnel and CPAs are expected to attend. Glenn had lived in Wood County the past five years and was a Baptist. Survivors include two sons, Charles Preston of Lancaster and L. B. Glenn of Winnsboro; two daughters, Mrs.

Earl Patrick of Dallas and Mrs. C. L. Rockett of Waco; four sisers, Mrs. Ethel Wilkerson of Eddy, Mrs.

Ollie Presley of Corpus Ohristi, Mrs. Ina Wilkins and Mrs. Pearl Glenn, both not Waco; 11 grandchildren and 23 great Grandson will serve as pallbearers. R. A.

Campbell NACOGDOCHES Funeral services for Roy Alvin Campbell, 70, of Rt. 7, Nacogdoches, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Cason-Monk Funeral Home Chapel the Rev. Charles Hancock officiating. withy Burial will be in Rock Springs Cemetery Mr.

Campbell died Monday morning in a field near Martinsville. Justice of the Peace Carl Burrows ruled death by natural causes. A native of Nacogdoches County, he had lived in the Libby Community since 1956. He was a retired crane operator for a railroad company. He was a Baptist and a veteran of World War I.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Nora Elizabeth Calbert Campbell of Nacogdoches; one daughter, Mrs. James Grimes of Houston; three brothers, J. T. Campbell and Barron Campbell, both of Houston, and Claston Campbell of Dallas; and two grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Sam Moreau, Bud Thrash, John Meadors, D. W. "Red" Mills, Albert Patterson, Rosco Linthicum, Travis Burt and Tobe Griffin. Texan Gives Viet Views Before TDNA HOUSTON (AP) A Texas publisher just back from Vietnam said Monday the United States should equip the South Vietnamese army as well as Russia outfits the Viet Cong. Frank Mayborn, publisher of the 1 emple Daily Telegram, told the Texas Daily Newspaper Association about an inspection trip he made to Vietnam with retired Gen.

Bruce Clark. Mayborn returned to Texas on Saturday. He said the Viet Cong is plentifully supplied with Russian weapons. For example, he said, Viet Cong soldiers have the Russian AK47, a rifle similar to the U.S. M16.

The publisher said the United States has equipped the Army of Republic of Vietnam with World War II vintage weapons such as the carbine and Browning automatic rifle (BAR). Mayborn said the South Vietnamese should not be expected to fight as well with old weapons as the Viet Cong does with new weapons. However, the Temple man said the ARVN stood its ground and fought well when the Viet Cong launched their offensive on the Vietnamese New Year's, Jan. 31. He also said that by launching the offensive on this day sacred to the Vietnamese, the Cong committed blunder.

He said the VC apparently believed the people would rise up and support them in a popular revolution but that this didn't happen. Mayborn said the ARVN and American troops quickly reestablished net result, he said, 'appeared to have been to unify the South Vietnamese against the Viet Cong. The publisher said the communist offensive on Tet, the Vi tamese New Year, "may have been the great turning point in the war." Charles Pharo Rites Thursday Graveside services for Charles W. Pharo, 67, of Clearwater, are scheduled at 1 pm. Thursday in Tyler Memorial Park.

The Rev. Curtis Mathes will officiate. Local arrangements are being handled by Burks-Walker-Tippit Funeral Home. Mr. Pharo died Monday morning in a Clearwater hospital.

He had resided in Florida eight years and was a former resident of Trinidad, Texas He was an inspector for the Hartford Steam Boiler Co. and a member of the Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Pharo; his mother, Mrs. Tom Pharo of Weatherford; three sons, Ray Pharo of Nederland, Dr.

Milam Pharo of Dallas, and Winston Pharo of Port Neches; one daughter, Mrs. Marzell McBride of San Antonio; two brothers; two sisters; nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Arthur Mayfield Funeral Pending Arthur Mayfield, 86, of Telephone, father of two Tyler women, died Monday at the home of a daughter in Fort Worth after a sudden illness. Funeral services are pending at the Wise Funeral Home in Bonham. Mr.

Mayfield, a tarmer, had lived in Telephone all his life. He was a member of the Church of Christ. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Connie Mayfield; three daughters, Mrs. Oscar Johnson and Mrs.

H. L. Barber, both of Tyler, and Mrs. Virginia McSpadden of Fort Worth; three grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. Sec.

Tyler TUESDAY, Morning FEBRUARY 20, Telegraph 1968 5 Highway Group To Meet Today -The possibility that Mars is covered with a sheet of ice 650 feet thick over which a layer of dust about 330 feet thick the planet's early days, said, this ice stroschucho might have been a surface ocean where life on Mars originated. -The chance that planetary space travelers might need to undergo surgery before their voyages, making teeth sound and removing from their bodies such possibly troublesome organs as the appendix and gall stones. The three day symposium, although some of its topics sound like make-believe, is a serious attempt to plan for the future. It includes participants from the Air Force. the U.S.

Bureau of Mines, the U.S. Corps of Engineers, and private industry. The meeting opened Monday morning with a call from a top aerospace industry official for scientists and engineers to get together on a plan for space exploration after the Apollo moon landing, and then urge the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to adopt Another speaker, from the Space Agency itself, Dr. Carl Lowman Jr. of the Goddard Spaceflight Center, said the United States now knows enough to make a base on the moon its second space objective.

The first objective is the moon landing, set by the late President Kennedy as a goal to be reached by 1969. Such a base might serve as the for manning, activities those discussoutpost, ed in the symposium. "To an astronomer there is only one answer as to what our next step should be." Larmore said. "An observatory on the moon form a nucleus for exploration of the moon itself and, during the buildup phase of a colony. provide scientific data which are of unquestioned merit." EASY FREE Plans for an appearance before the Texas Highway Commission to request State Highway 31 improvements will be considered by members of the Tyler Chamber of Commerce highway committee during 8 meeting Tuesday.

The meeting will be held at 10 a.m, in the Tyler Room of the Blackstone Hotel, Harry Loftis, chairman, said. Loftis said the group also will discuss some plans for organizing a U.S. 69 Association. Jones had been a resident of Mineola most of her life and was a Baptist. Survivors include three sons, Riley Jones and Mason Jones, both of Mineola, and Robert Jones of Woodville; five daughters, Mrs.

Dorothy Taylor of Tyler, Mrs. Trudie M. Hill of Tallahassee, and Miss Lucy Jones, Mrs. Irma Hornsby and Mrs. Vernice Avery, all of Mineola; a brother, Darris Holt of Lindale: two sisters, Mrs Lucy Young of Tyler and Mrs.

Ella Wright of Mineola; 11 grandchildren, 23 greatgrandchildren and 25 greatgreat Pallbearers will be Nelson, John Mahomes, Major Daniels, Shaw Stephens, GenNewsome and M. C. McCalla. L. M.

Crouch PALESTINE Funeral services for Lewis M. Crouch, 67, of Calvert, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Hassell Foster Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. V. B.

Starnes and Dr. D. D. Summerall officiating. Burial will be in the Land of Memory Cemetery.

Mr. Crouch died Sunday in a Galveston hospital after a long illness. A native of Normangee, he was a paint contractor, He also lived in Waco for a period of Survivors include two brothers, K. P. Crouch and Willie Crouch, both Waco; three sisters, Mrs.

Addie Hunt of Palestine, Mrs. Joe Farrar, of McGreggor and Mrs. Yancey of Galveston; and several nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be L. Coker, Dr.

L. G. Thomas, Martin Redwine, Charles Reeves, Wilson Buckley, J. T. Bythe and Carl Kirk.

W. N. Irwin HENDERSON-Funeral services for Walter (Bill) N. Irwin, 82, of Crim's Chapel community near Henderson, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Crim's Chapel Providence Baptist Church.

The Rev. John Reynolds and the Rev. Edward Spring will officiate. Burial will be in the Crim's Chapel Cemetery under the direction of Bryan-Cothron Funeral Home. Mr.

Irwin died Sunday night in a Henderson nursing home after a long illness. He was born in Rusk County and was a retired farmer. He held membership in the Providence Baptist. Church in Crim's Chapel. Survivors are his wife, Mrs.

Mattie Belle Irwin; four daughters, Mrs. Henry Scarborough, Mrs. Earl Hudson, Mrs. Alex Ashby, and Mrs. Billy Willard, all of Henderson; four sons, Forrest Irwin, Wilton and Wayland Irwin, all of Henderson, and E.

N. Irwin of Kilgore; of Henderson and Otho two brothers, Ernest W. Irwin of Koose, 16 grandchildren and five -grandchildren. Mrs. Cantrell HENDERSON-Funeral services for Mrs.

Rosie E. Cantrell, 72, of Henderson, will at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Second Baptist Church of Henderson with the Rev. Dick Cayce officiating. Burial will be in Union Grove Cemetery in Smith County under the direction of Bryan-Cothron Funeral Home.

Mrs. Cantrell died at 4:15 a.m. Monday in a Henderson nursing home 'after short illness. A Baptist, Mrs. Cantrell had lived in Henderson two weeks.

She was a native of Corsicana and had lived most of her life there. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Billy G. Pannell of Henderson and Mrs. Elmer Hiers of Council Bluff, Iowa; two sisters, Mrs.

P. J. Gunter of Tyler and Mrs. Lawrence Odom of Dallas; 11 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

Mrs. Lacy HENDERSON-Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Lacy, 69, of Mount Enterprise, are pending at Crawford-A. Crim Funeral Home. Mrs.

Lacy died Monday afternoon in a Houston hospital. Survivors include her husband, Albert Lacy of Mount Enterprise; her mother, Daisy Parker of Mount Enterprise; one son, Parker Lacy of Port Lavaca; one daughter, Mrs. Marvin Casey of Mount Enterprise; and two brothers, Addis T. Parker of Fayetteville, and Frank Parker of Harlingen. Mrs.

Glenn QUITMAN (Spl.) Funeral services for Mrs. Lillie Mae Glenn, 82, of Rt. 3, Winnsboro, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Little Hope Baptist Church with the Rev. Glen Carroll and the Rev.

Melvin Harrell officiating. Burial will be in Little Hope Cemetery under the direction of Cain Funeral Home of Quitman. Mrs. Glenn died Monday morning in a Gilmer nursing home, after a long illness A native of Rockdale, Mrs. There are more than 50 species of oak trees in Texas.

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