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Sec. 1 Tyler Morning Telegraph SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1993 11 Funerals Today ET (CuEflt9 Carnmp Hie (Blnoit Twm tion of Garrett Tucker Funeral Directors, Athens. Timothy Sampson, 38, White-house, died last Saturday; private memorial services p.m. at tne PALESTINE (AP) The rustic, dilapidated that, too. Mary Turney, 67, Rusk, died home of his sister, Sandra Sterling, Thursday; services! 1 funvat FirsLLcamp in the East Texas woods where DavidJfoeshiJtA bench press leans against a tree with rusted Whitehouse; metal and a decomiiosing United Methodist Church.

Rusk: ascended as leader of the Branch Davidians is little more than a ehost town todav an nil hut Wrt. There are more than a dozen small shacks with no running water or electricity on the 20-acre" property that Koresh purchased in 1985. The largest one is made from rough hewn timbers and ed salvage yard of decaying school buses and di minutive wooden shacks. The camp is hidden among towering nine trees The Rev. Houston Cato, 77, Montat ba, died Tuesday, services 11 a.m.

in Montalba Baptist Church; graveside services 3 p.m. in Allphin Cemetery, Madisonville, with arrangements by Bailey Foster Funeral Home, in dense forest, thick brush and poison ivy about tarpaper and is quarters to a caretaker, a tele- burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery, un-fer direction of Wallace-Thompson Funeral Home, Rusk. Rudy Rodriguez 76, Palestine, died Wednesday; services 10 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church; burial in Saint Joseph Cemetery under direction of Herrington Land of Memory Funeral Home, Palestine. Hufard Allen.

86. Grapeland. 250 yards from a snaking, dirt-and-oil road 15 phone line installed after the siege began near miles northwest of Palestine in rural Anderson Waco swavs between trees leading to the cabin- County. like structure. It looks much like it did in 1987, when Koresh The abandoned huts and seven school buses and and most of his followers abandoned the site for the other cars and trucks which the cultists used as one near Waco which was devoured in Monday's homes are now junked and stuffed with rusted E1 4.u .1 i.

i l. J.i. and forth to Waco to visit the survivors and jailed cultists, including her husband, Woodrow. On Friday, she gathered belongings of some who Eerished in the inferno and said the group didn't aveplahs to return to the property permanently. D.W.

Shults, who lives closest to the camp, said he never had any problems with the cultists, whom he often helped with chores. He said about 30 lived there at one time, including 10 children, and that several often trekked back from Waco to visit the caretakers, gather firewood and go deer hunting. "Sometimes I'd give them some goat milk or some garden vegetables," Shults sail "Their routine was pretty much like it was in Mount Carmel, prayer service, some target shooting. "They were just God-fearing people, never harmed nobody out here. They studied their Bibles, went on walks to stay in shape, six miles a day and sang songs.

Sometimes, we'd hear Vernon playing his Christian rock. "Shoot, they were nice people," Shults said, shaking his head "Good neighbors. When they drove up the road, they'd always holler at you. I took them into town sometimes. "Whether they were right or wrong, they were God-fearing people, and they were trying to live right.

"You know something? I miss them. I really do." efl ihursday; services p.nuar ic, cumiig me aiCBB mm stunning speed. ueiuiiKintta arm wasp nesis. mense uimea uaic tu Palestine. Gladys Mildred Talent, 84, Neches, died Thursday; services 2 p.m.

in Bailey Foster Funeral Home chapel, Palestine; burial in ijJew Addition Annex: Arthur Ray Thacker, 48, Alto, died Tuesday; services 1 p.m. in St Thomas Chapel near Alto; burial in St Thomas Chapel Cemetery, under i direction of O.T. Allen Son Funeral Home, Alto. I Melvin Aaron Wnrrl 32 CMiram Refuge Cemetery; burial under di wear xne center oi tne camp are 13 green vinyl lsao, none are newer tnan laop. A bumper sticker on the back of a deserted furni seats ripped from school buses and set in a large circle where Koresh used to gather his flock, preach his doomsday message and play rock 'n' roll on his guitar.

Most of the benches are tipped over now and piled high with several seasons' worth of brittle pine needles, as are the narrow trails and a dry creek bed Hanging from a board nailed to two trunks is a tire swing where the cult's children used to play when they weren't being schooled in the huts. A large wooden spool sits nearby. Children played on i 111., formerly of NaencHnrVips HipH ture van reads: "JESUS turns TRIALS into TRI-UMPHS." 1 The camp was mostly deserted in 1987 when Koresh, then known as Vernon Howell, moved to the compound near Waco, replaced George Roden as the leader of the Branch Davidians and began stockpiling weapons, preparing for Armageddon. A couple of caretakers remained on the property until recently, when one woman fell ill and returned to her family in North Carolina. Another woman, Janet Kendrick, has been shuttling back Monday; services 10 a.m.

at Laird Funeral Home chapel, Nacogdoches; burial in Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery, Nacogdoches. Alton Lee Wade, 78, Hide-a-Way i Lake, died Thursday; services 10 a.m. in Caudle-Ruuedge Funeral Home chapel, Lindale; burial in Sand Flat Cemetery near Tyler. Emily Ethel Carter, 97, Frankfort, formerly of Nacogdoches, died Sunday: services 2 am. at rection of Bailey Foster Funeral Hpme, Grapeland.

Joseph Reames, 89, Ore City, died Thursday; services 11 a.m. at United Pentecostal Church, Ore City; burial JmCoffeeville Cemetery, Upshur County, under direction of Gnibbs- Loyd Funeral Home, Gilmer Myrtice Geneva Dougan, 74, Gladewater, died Thursday; services 2 p.m. in Quitman and Center Street Church of Christ, Gladewater; burial in Gladewater Memorial Park under direction of Stone-Goodwin Funeral Home. I Theresia Mae Cook, 68, Chandler, died Wednesday, services 11 a.m. at Faith Tabernacle Church of Deliverance, Chandler, burial in Evergreen Memorial Park, Tyler, under direction of Sterling Funeral Directors.

Mrs. Ava Lisenbee ohnson, 82, Tyler, died Thursday; services 1:30 p.m. in Lloyd James Funeral Home chapel; burial in Rose Hill Cemetery. Zell Dean, 87, Tyler, died Thursday; services 2 p.m. at Galilee Baptist Church, Flint; burial in Galilee Cemetery, Flint, under direction of Sterling Funeral Directors, Tyler.

Shannon Furguson, 5 months, Arp, infant daughter of Angela Furguson and Kenneth Baker, both of Tyler, died Friday; graveside services 4 p.m. in Pleasant Hill Cemetery with IIIIMele IIBnit Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Home in airview cemetery, center. Annie Lee Weatherby, 101, Midwest City, and formerly of Jacksonville, died Wednesday; graveside services 1 p.m. at Jackson- ville. City Cemetery, under direction oi uie cm funeral Home, Oklahoma City.

3t Lena May Meier, 82, Tyler, formerly of Alto, died Wednesday, graveside services 4 p.m. in Alto City Cemetery with arrangements under Fiesta Bash Heating Up SAN ANTONIO (AP) A sea of revelers in bright-colored clothing, a monstrous downtown parade and a feast of Mexican foods Friday set in motion the grand finale weekend of Fiesta. "I love all this excitement," said Velma Navejar, making her way through the Friday afternoon crowd with her young daughter. "It's festive ana food and eat and eat and eat." That about sums it up. 7 The city's 10-day celebration with food festivals and concerts and parties and culminates in this final weekend of parades, plus more food festivals and more concerts and more parties.

Schools and downtown businesses closed early for Friday's Battle of Flowers Parade, the historic procession that got Fiesta stalled in the 1890s as a celebration honoring Texas war heroes, Eating cotton candy along the parade route, 8-year-old Daniel Oliva shared his thoughts on Fiesta: "Cool." WASHINGTON (AP) Housing Secretary Henry G. Cisneros told a congressional panel meeting in a homeless shelter Friday that he'll spend an additional $148 million this year to house disabled, homeless Americans. Speaking in the basement of the shelter near the Capitol, Cisneros said, "There is no higher priority in our department;" than helping the homeless. J'During the past few years, we have seen defenseless and hopeless members of our community sleeping on grates, wandering along the sidewalks of our cities, huddled on grates and literally camping in open spaces in our urban centers," Cisneros said. "This is not our vision of America." Cisneros met with the House Banking subcommittee on housing at the shelter created by the Community for Creative Non-Violence from an abandoned government building.

The CCNVs late leader, Mitch Snyder, relentlessly hammered the Reagan administration through protests and civil disobedience to turn the building over to homeless. Cisneros and subcommittee toured the building which was rennovated to provide temporary housing, medical care and counseling. He said the money he'll spend on the homeless will be transferred from a rental assistance fund. It will target homeless persons with disabilities, including substance abuse. The $148 million supplements the $600 million already set aside for homeless programs in the Department of Housing and Urban Development budget for 1993.

President Clinton's 1994 budget proposal for HUD includes $855 million for the homeless. Cisneros said the new money, in part, will be used to help pay security deposits and utility deposits, teach good budgeting practices and supply services related directly to individual disabilities. Estimates of the nation's homeless population range from 600,000 to 3 million. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, single adults suffering from severe mental ill- ness account for one-third of the homeless population. A sizable proportion of the homeless mentally ill also abuse alcohol or drugs.

District of Columbia Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly said the number of families seeking shelter in Washington has risen sharply in the last year from 500 to 800. A survey by the U.S. Conference of Mayors' task force on hunger and homelessness also found that requests for emergency shelter increased an average 14 percent in 1992, but almost a quarter couldn't be satisfied. "It's a national disgrace when we see people standing in soup lines, begging for food and sleeping on the ground," said Rep. Lucien Blackwell, D-Pa.

airecuon oi u.i. Alien oc son runer-Pjj al Home, Alto. 6 James Thomas Smith, 69, Edom, Wednesday; graveside services arrangements under direction of tvm flt flnnpnrd Cantata -noar fi; Chandler, with arrangements under Bryan uneral Home, Henderson. direction ol rlilliard rineral Home, jackie Marie King, 52, Jackson- -o ville, formerly of" Gushing, died o.a. -Etr wmis, 67, Elkhart, Thursday; services 2 p.m.

at McKnight Congregational Church, Cushing; burial in McKnight Cemetery under direction of Boren-Conner Funeral Home, Jacksonville. in Parker Cemetery, west of x', Grapeland, with arrangements un- Ava L. Johnson aer direction oi caiiey oster u-neral Home, Grapeland Loree Foster, 80, Brownsboro, died Thursday; graveside services 2 p.m. at Shady Grove Cemetery, near Nacogdoches, with arrangements under of Burks-Walker-Tippit Funeral Directors, Tyler. James L.

Anthony, 73, Pomona, formerly of Tyler, died Wednesday; services 11 at North Star Missionary Baptist fp)' Jl) 1 IAJUU ST0REWIDE SAVINGS il 1 25 To 50 Off j.iiiui.u, iiei, uuuaij.iu ijveigiten Memorial Park, under direction of Harmon Mortuary, Tyler. R.T. Smith, 78, Gladewater, died 'Tuesday; services 1 p.m. at Greater New Hope Baptist Church, Gladewater; burial in Red Rock Memorial Cemetery under direction of "McCauley Son Funeral Home Memorial Chapel. Gladewater.

1 Services for Mrs. Ava Lisenbee Johnson, 82, Tyler, are scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Lloyd James Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. J. Travis Gibson officiating.

Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Johnson died Thursday night in a Tyler nursing home after a lengthy illness. She was born April 29. 1910, in Roscoe.

She was a retired clerk for Exxon and member of First Baptist Church in Kilgore. She lived in Tyler six year, moving from Kilgore. Survivors include two daughters and sons-in-law, Lee and Dr. Paul Arnold, Tyler, Sharon and Nick Nicholson, Waco; one sister, Una Grace Hines, Stephenville; four granchil-dren, Ava Ann York, Anne-Marie Thompson, Wes Arnold and Walt Arnold. V.

Pallbearers will be Wes Arnold, Walt Arnold, Randy Hines, Mike York and Tracy Thompson. Jki Sua. Retail '599 Tupv.Tnhnenn RR Franltstwi rlipd ww.ww, ww, 1 1 i on vf aiviunaay services p.m. ai iviuuiii Olive Baptist Church, Frankston; burial in l)abbs Cemetery, Neches, i under direction of Harmon Mortu- Sug. Retail -M 249" $59900 Sary, Tyler, allum Wilson.

78. Athens, died Ha 1 Thursday; services 1 p.m. at Mount f1 j. i l. 1 rroviaence Dapust nurcn; uunai in North Athens Cemetery under direc- YOUR CHOICE $29900 Farm Worker Union Header Pies In Sleep Sug.

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Christopher commended Palestinian leaders for making "the difficult and courageous" decision to return to the negotiating table. Christopher said he believes that, self-government is possible as an interim stage toward a negotiated final settlement. "Indeed, the objective of this process is a real peace that will see occu- pation give way to interim self-government and a new relationship between Israelis and Palestinians," Christopher said. "The outcome must provide a peaceful and orderly transfer of au-' thority to the Palestinians, who must then be free to elect their own representatives." Inmates Riot In Groesbeck Detention Center GROESBECK (AP) A riot among 75 to 100 prisoners at the Limestone County Minimum 'Security Detention Center resulted in tear gas being thrown into a portion of. the building Friday night.

"They destroyed anything they! could destroy in their said Limestone County Sheriff Dennis Walker. There were no immediate reports of injuries to guards or inmates. The privately -operated facility has 500 beds, officials said But a spokeswoman at the sheriffs department said the number of prisoners at the center was unavailable. The riot began about 5 p.m. CDT between inmates from two of the SAN LUIS, Ariz.

(AP) Cesar Chavez, son of a migrant farm worker who organized itinerant laborers into a union and led a nationwide grape boycott in the 1960s, was found dead Friday, apparently of natural causes. He was 66. Minn a "He was really a visionary," said I Jerry Brown, the former California 'governor and a close political ally. What he was looking for was a more i cooperative society and a more car Ottoman Priced Separately Sug. Retail -M07900 $59900 i i ing society.

Chavez was president of the California-based United Farm Workers Union, which gave voice to farm workers, many of them poor and Hispanic. Praised in 1968 by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy as "one of the heroic figure -of our time," Chavez called attention DON'T BUY UNTIL YOU TRY! YOU SAW IT ON TV NOW SEE IT HERE to his causes by going rn a 5-day fast in 1968, a 24-day fast in 1972 and a 36-dav fast in 1988. $5.4 million award against the union in 1988.

His death came at a time when the union's influence was dwindling. Membership, which totaled about 109,000 in the 1970s, was down to about 20,000 by the early 1990s. Conditions and wages for farm workers peaked in the late 1970s. They suffered through the 1980s and con- tinue to decline. Workers often live near farm fields in shacks, cars or out in the open.

Chavez once said: "If the union falls apart when I am gone, I will have been a miserable failure and it will have been a terrible waste of a lot of time by a lot of people." Chavez was born March 31, 1927, on a small farm near Yuma. The Depression shattered his father's finances and the family took to the road as migrant laborers. He never graduated from high school, and once counted 65 elementary schools he had attended "for a day, a week or -a few months." Henderson County Firefighters Battle Cedar Creek Blaze TOOL Volunteer firefighters and law officers throughout Henderson County responded to a blaze at Don's Port Manna, off Farm-to-Mar-ket Road 274, on the shores of Cedar Creek Reservoir, authorities said late Friday night. At 11:35 p.m., the Henderson County Sheriffs Department had not determined how severe the fire was, but a spokesman confirmed it involved a condominium project. The incident was reported at 10:28 p.m., an HCSD dispatcher said, prompting as many as 20 calls to the scene.

East Texas Emergency Medical "On Sale Now" Custom Draperies Upholstering "Since 1950" "Free Estimates" SALE-20 To 50 5 His doctors said the water-only gfast in 1988 to protest the use of pesticides on California table grapes jjcaused Chavez to lose 19 percent of Khis body weight 33Va pounds fcand left him with kidney damage. 3 Chavez apparently died in his sleep at the home of a union supporter, said police Lt. John Miranda. His was to be flown to California for Ban autopsy and funeral. 6 Dolores Huerta, union vice presi-Rdent, had worked with Chavez since S1955 and co-founded the union with Rhim in 1962.

"We know he is irreplaceable, but people are in place to continue the work of the union," pHuerta said. Condolences and praise came from supporters and opponents alike. Farm leaders like Bob Vice of the California Farm Bureau Federation pexpressed grudging admiration. 5 "He was a worthy advocate for his three buildings at the facility, Walker said It continued at 11:30 p.m. Officials believe the riot may have started when some of the prisoners lost their privileges.

"Some of the inmates had their TV taken away until they cleaned up their living quarters," Walker said Members of the Texas Department of Public Safety and a SWAT team were called to the scene. Walker said where they joined the Groesbeck Police Department. Recently rioting broke out at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. It ended Wednesday when inmates freed their five remaining hostages. If: -1 UUa ha vice saiu.

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