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Police Report Rain Movps Stocks Rise Tyler Coarier-Tlmes TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1985 a. Police Probe Burglaries Tvler Dolice are Drobine two residential burglaries, in which snhstnnt.ini Tyler police are probing two residential burglaries, in which substantial S. Africa Head Rejects ANG Member's Appeal amounts of loot were taken. Roma Vandermel, 2525 Shiloh, told police someone burglarized her apartment between Saturday and Monday afternoon. Police reports show burglars entered the apartment through a kitchen window and stole jewelry, liquor, a VCR and a television.

Mendi Hopson, also of 2525 Shiloh, told police someone cut a screen, opened a window and burglarized her apartment. Reports show the burglary occurred over the same time period as the Vandermel break-in. Hopson reported a VCR and a pistol stolen, reports show. The two items were valued at $665. CHAIN SAWS STOLEN Joe Jones, 502 E.

Rosedale, reported a theft to police Monday. According to reports, two chain saws were removed from the bed of Jones' pickup while it was parked at 1103 E. Gentry around 4:35 p.m. The chain saws were valued together at $500. AUTO WHEELS STOLEN All four wheels on a 1983 Chevrolet Camaro owned by Travis Lee Petti-grew, Route 4, Tyler, were! stolen Sunday or Monday.

Pettigrew found his disabled vehicle at 6:30 a.m. Monday at the Forestwood Apartmetns, where it was parked. Defendant Changes Plea, Murder Trial Rescheduled But Dow Falls NEW YORK (AP) Stock prices were slightly ahead today but the Dow Jones industrial average backed away from record-high levels. Bank and aerospace issues paced the gainers, while auto, telephone and airline stocks were among the casualties. The Dow Jones average of 30 in-.

dustrials, having jumped nearly 15 points Monday, gained another 5 points early in today's session and stood slightly above its record closing high of 1,359.54, set July 19. But by noontime the average had dropped 5.49 on the day to 1,349.24. Gainers overall maintained a 7-5 lead over losers on the New York Stock Exchange, but the YSE composite index lost 0.19 to 107.45. Big Board volume totaled 61.00 million shares at noon, against 31.70 million at that hour Monday, which was a semi-holiday in observance of Columbus Day. On the NYSE's active list, J.P.

Morgan rose Vt to 50 after posting higher third-quarter earnings, but Citicorp, which also reported a profit gain for the quarter, lost V4 to 43. Pan American World Airways gained Yi to 8, NCR was up at 3494, Coleco slumped 1 to 20 and Colgate-Palmolive jumped 2 to Morning Markets NEW YORK (AP) Morning stocks: death after being questioned by detectives. Dicken was found lying in a pool of blood in his living room Jan. 28 by police investigating a missing persons complaint. Initial reports said Dicken had been dead for two or three days when he was found.

He had been badly beaten in the face and head with a blunt instrument, according to investigators. Police recovered the weapon believed used in the murder, but investigators did not release details on the instrument. Bell has been serving time for a burglary conviction at the Texas Department of Corrections since March. If convicted of Dicken's death, he faces a sentence of five to 99 years or life imprisonment and a possible fine of up to $10,000. Bell's attorney is Dick Davis and First Assistant District Attorney Richard Moore will prosecute the case.

Michael Alan Bell, accused of bludgeoning a Tyler man to death last January, has changed his plea twice in the last 24 hours, resulting in his murder trial being postponed until next Monday. The case against 21-year-old Bell, charged with murder in connection with the death of 65-year-old John Edward Dicken, 1115 Brookshire, was set for a jury trial in 241st District Court today. Bell pleaded not guilty before State District Judge Joe Tunnell Monday morning following the hearing of pre-trial motions on the case. Tunnell scheduled the case for to day and a jury was being selected Monday afternoon when Tunnell was informed at 3:35 p.m. that the defendant and prosecutors had reached a plea bargain agreement and Bell had changed his plea to guilty.

Potential jurors and witnesses were dismissed from the case and another case was scheduled to be heard in the 241st courtroom today, said Tunnell. Then this morning Bell changed his mind once again, deciding to plead not guilty and have a jury hear his case. Tunnell reset the trial for Monday, Oct. 21, saying the reversed decision had caused "a lot of inconvenience" to the court and to jurors. Bell was arrested by Tyler police Jan.

30 near his Dawson Street home on a warrant for bond forfeiture, related to an old burglary charge. He was later charged with murder in connection with Dicken's Beirut Police, Soviets Stepping Up Security "We are all in a terrible state of shock," she said. "His mother has just heard and she is not able to talk about it yet." Jana said all legal channels to save Moloise's life had been exhausted, but said she probably would file an appeal for clemency on humanitarian grounds. Moloise, 30, was convicted and sentenced to death in September 1983 for killing black policeman Phillipus Selepe in an ambush near Pretoria 10 months earlier. He admitted being a member of the outlawed African National Congress, a guerrilla movement opposed to white minority rule in South Africa, and acknowledged last month he was involved in planning the murder.

He denied, however, having pulled the trigger in the murder. Moloise was due to hang Aug. 21, but a judge granted a last-minute stay of execution saying there was new evidence of extreme psychological pressure at the time of the attack. The stay came amid intense international pressure on the South African government to commute the death sentence. The United States was among Western governments that condemned the planned hanging.

Jana said she was surprised by Botha's decision to refuse a new trial. "There was extensive evidence at least for a new hearing on mitigation," she said. In Pretoria, police said a young white officer had been suspended from duty pending an investigation into allegations that four policemen kicked and beat 13-year-old Moses Mope to death in the black township of Atteridgeville late Saturday. A police spokesman said officers were investigating a charge of murder, but that an unidentified white constable, who was pointed out in an identification parade, had not been arraigned. Atteridgeville residents said the boy was returning home from church when he was caught by four officers who kicked and beat him on the ground.

He died from his injuries in a hospital shortly afterwards. A judge in Windhoek, the capital of Pretoria-ruled South West Africa or Namibia, today convicted two white conscripts of murdering a black civilian Feb. 9. David Reed, 19, and Martin Cockeran, also 19, were convicted of shooting 40-year-old shopkeeper Sebastiaan Lukas at Okatifo in the north of the territory. Testimony at the trial revealed that Reed and Cockeran, while on guard duty, detained Lukas and made him squat on his haunches.

They walked about six to eight paces, spun and fired together with their military rifles, killing the man instantly. "It is clear that they had a common purpose to shoot the de ceased," Judge Herbert Hendler said. Retired General Dies In Dallas DALLAS (AP) Retired U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen.

Edwin Bliss Wheeler, commanding general of the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam in the late 1960s, has died of a heart attack. He was 67. Wheeler died Monday at his home here. He served in the Marine Corps for more than 30 years before his retirement in 1972. Wheeler commanded the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970 and commanded the 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Division in Vietnam from 1964 to 1965.

Wheeler suffered back injuries when his helicopter was shot down in Vietnam. He was awarded the Silver Star, Distinguished Service Medal, Presidential Unit Citation and five citations of legion of Merit during a career that began in 1941 and ended in 1972. He became a major general in 1968 and his last assignment was assistant chief of staff for the Marine Corps. He served on the U.S. Battle Monuments Commission for a time following his retirement.

The retired officer, who maintained homes in Dallas and Hot Springs, was a native of Port Chester, N.Y. and graduated from Williams College in 1940. Survivors include his wife, Betsy Maxon Wheeler of Dallas, four daughters, two step-sons and a step-daughter. A memorial service was to be held today at Church of the Incarnation and burial will be at Arlington National Cemetery. Chrysler, Canada UAW Drawing Nearer In Talks FromTvler By BOB PETERS Staff Writer Rain moved out of East Texas this morning, and forecasters expect a day or so of mild and partly cloudy weather before precipitation moves back.

Amounts in the area overnight Monday-Tuesday averaged between one-half inch and an inch and a half. Douglass, in Nacogdoches County, measured 1.12 inches. Tyler measured 0.49 altogether. Lufkin was deluged with 3.27 inches the heaviest amount reported from an East Texas station. Cloudiness was present this morning.

Some reports of light drizzle were being received. A mass of cool air was being overrun by warm air at lower atmospheric levels. This produced fog, which reduced visibility in Tyler to three miles at 6 a.m. The cool air mass, supplied by a high pressure ridge over the Plains, will thicken tonight. This will permit partial clearing.

An upper air storm will approach from the southwest tomorrow night. Showers should return by Thursday and persist through Saturday. The temperature in downtown Tyler fell from a Monday maximum of 91 to a Tuesday minimum of 63, and stood at 64 at 9 a.m. A second line of thundershowers moved through Tyler around 9 p.m. Monday.

This followed by about six hours the earlier line of precipitation. Of the total which fell in Tyler, 0.42 was recorded with the second thundershower. The forecast for Tyler and vicinity calls for partly cloudy and mild tonight, with a low in the middle 50s and winds light and northerly. Tomorrow should be partly cloudy and mild, high middle 70s, and winds light and northeasterly. Tomorrow night's outlook is for increasing cloudiness and a low in the middle 50s.

Among other measures, new checkpoints and mobile night patrols were established several blocks away from the already forti- fied embassy compound in Moslem west Beirut, witnesses said. In the latest of a series of telephone calls from the purported kidnappers, a caller claiming to represent the Islamic Jihad Organization told state-owned Beirut radio late today that a threat Monday to kill the three Soviet hostages was fraudulent. However, the caller said, his group would destroy the Soviet Embassy if pro-Syrian Lebanese militias fighting Moslem fundamentalists re-established themselves in the northern port city of Tripoli. The Islamic Jihad, which claimed responsibility for the kidnappings along with the Islamic Liberation Organization, did not set any deadline for the destruction of the embassy. In a phone call Sunday, a caller told Christian Voice of Lebanon radio the kidnappers would kill three Soviet hostages and blow up the Soviet Embassy if the mission did not close within 48 hours.

Again Monday, a man claiming to represent the Islamic Liberation Organization told same station they would kill the Soviets "in half an hour" because of mounting tension in Tripoli. But police and Soviet Embassy officials today had reported no sign that the threat had been carried out against the three men Attache Oleg Spirine, Embassy physician Nikolai Sversky, and commercial Attache Valery Mirikov. Embassy officials had no comment on either of the calls and threats. Police sources said there was no way of authenticating either call. "We investigate all these calls.

Nothing should be taken lightly," a police source said. The three were kidnapped Sept. 30 along with a fourth Soviet official Consular Secretary Arkady Katkov. He was killed Oct. 2 and his body dumped in Beirut.

In another development, security sources said one of the three kidnapped men telephoned the embassy Monday and relayed the latest demands of the abductors. The sources had no other details on the call. There was no way of determining the authenticity of Monday's telephone call to Christian Voice of Lebanon, but police sources speculated the kidnappers may have decided to kill the remaining Soviet hostages because of renewed tension in the northern port of Tripoli between the Moslem fundamentalist Tawheed movement and pro-Syrian militias. The Tawheed's leader. Sheikh Shaeed Shaaban, has accused the Syrian-backed militiamen of breaking the terms of a cease-fire in the city by mounting heavily armed patrols there.

The kidnappers originally demanded that the Soviet Union pressure Syria its ally to end the fighting in Tripoli. A truce was announced Oct. 3. Some 100 Soviet citizens were evacuated from Lebanon on Oct. 4 but about 49 diplomats and the wives of the hostages were thought to have remained in the heavily fortified embassy.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (UPI) President Pieter Botha today rejected an appeal for a new trial for a member of the banned African National Congress convicted of shooting a black policeman in 1982, his lawyer said. Priscilla Jana, representing Benjamin Moloise, said the Department of Prisons, in Pretoria in conjunction with Botha's office, had set his execution by hanging for 7 a.m. Friday. The hanging would be the first political execution since three ANC activists were hanged in Pretoria in 1983. Police in Pretoria said a black man was burned to death in a black township outside Port Elizabeth and reported the arrest of 28 people in scattered incidents throughout the country overnight.

In Port Elizabeth, police said they arrested five black men for the murder Sunday night of army Corp. Johan Schoeman, the first white soldier or policeman to die in 13 months of racial violence. Schoeman was stabbed 73 times when he was caught in an alley by blacks who earlier had stoned an army vehicle in the Kwazakele black township. Racial violence continued in Cape Town, where at least 56 peo-; pie have died in two months during the worst rioting in the city's histo-ry. More than 750 people almost all black have been killed in more than a year of racial violence.

At least three youths of mixed race were detained by police who broke up outlawed meetings at four schools around Cape Town today. Officers ordered reporters out of the area and told the pupils they would be filmed and photographed so that they could be identified in court and prosecuted. The meetings were related to a 12-week school boycott to protest segregated education under South Africa's laws of racial separation known as apartheid. Law and Order Minister Louis le Grange last month outlawed all meetings to promote school or consumer boycotts. Jana said she petitioned Botha Sept.

10 for a new trial Moloise on the basis of new psychiatric evidence, but was informed by telephone today that Botha had rejected the appeal. Wanda Warbritton Rites Conducted Services for Mrs. Manda Warbritton, 74, Wichita, were to be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Lloyd James Funeral Home in Tyler, with the Rev. Von Dawson and the Rev.

Spurrier officiating. Burial was to be in Rose Hill Cemetery in Tyler. Mrs. Warbritton died Saturday afternoon in a Wichita hospital after a sudden illness. A former Tylerite, she was born in Pine Bluff, Ark.

She had lived in Wichita five months and was a former member of Pollard Methodist Church in Tyler. Survivors include a son, Michael L. Herring, Wichita, a brother, Lee A. Wilson, Tyler; and two granddaughters. Pallbearers were Jimmy Wilson, William Tomlinson, Bill Carpenter, Jeff Browning, Lane Fisher and Eddie Taylor.

Oscar Crawford Services Pending Services for Oscar Dinzel Crawford, 69, Tyler, are pending with Lloyd James Funeral Home of Tyler. Mr. Crawford died Monday in a Tyler hospital after a brief illness. Mr. Crawford was born April 12, 1916, in Arkansas.

He was a retired machinist for Ideal Bakery and lived most of his life in Tyler. He was a Methodist and was a member of several square dance clubs. Survivors include wife wife, Ber-ta Crawford, Tyler? two sons, Billy Edward Wood, Bullard, and George Smith, Tyler; two daughters, Betty Sue Robinson, Lufkin, and Donna Wood, San Francisco, two sisters, Evis Hartman and Floy Hoskins, both of Kilgore; five grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. Vinson A. Shelton Rites Wednesday Services for Vinson A.

Shelton, 80, Tyler, are scheduled for 10:30 p.m. Wednesday in Lloyd James Funeral Home in Tyler with Dr. James T. Garrett officiating. Burial will be in Tyler Memorial Park.

Mr. Shelton died early Monday at his residence after a lengthy illness. He was born July 2, 1905, in Tyler. He was a lifelong resident of Tyler and a retired market manager for Brookshire Food Company. He was a member of Marvin United Methodist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Louise Shelton, Tyler; a son, Vinson Allen Shelton Gun Barrel City; a daughter, Patricia Miears, Fort Worth; a brother, H.M. Shelton Noonday; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be David A. Shelton, Steven D.

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Black Investors Seek To Purchase New York Station HOUSTON (UPI) -J Houston businessman Milton Carroll has joined a group of black investors in an agreement to buy the Buffalo, N.Y., television station WKBW from Capital Cities Communications. Milton Carroll, president of Instrument Products Inc. and chairman of the Texas Southern University Board of Regents, said he had about a 10 percent stake in the $70 million deal. The largest investor is Bruce Llewellyn, a major shareholder in the Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Carroll said, adding others include Ed Lewis, publisher of Essence magazine; former football star O.J. Simpson; Bill Cosby's wife Camille Cosby and basketball star Julius Erving.

Carroll says he will be a director and member of the executive committee, but would not be involved in the daily operations. He said the operating company, Queen City Broadcasting, might attempt to acquire other broadcast properties if the WKBW acquisition proved successful. Capital Cities earlier this year agreed to sell a number of its broadcast properties in order to complete its $3.5 billion merger with American Broadcasting Co. Dallas Police Find Stabbing Victim DALLAS (AP) Police were attempting today to identify the body of a woman with multiple stab wounds who was found in a drainage ditch in north Dallas. The body was found face down in shallow muddy water late Monday, according to homicide investigators Howard Johnson and Don Watts.

The victim, in her early 20s, was wearing a black, sweat-type garment, officers said. Police found the body after an anonymous telephone call, officers said. Investigators speculate that the victim may be a 20-year-old Oklahoma bank employee who was last seen talking to a man at a nightclub not far from the area where the body was found. The woman was last seen early Sunday, police said. TORONTO (UPI) Chrysler Canada Ltd.

and the Canadian United Auto Workers reported they were closing fast on certain key issues in contract talks today as a midnight strike deadline approached. A second contract offer by the company late Monday met key union demands for parity for Chrysler employees, who were seeking to match wage and benefit provisions won last year by workers at General Motors of Canada Ltd. and Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd. The union said other parity demands still had to be met, as did certain in-plant issues.

"We're not close to a settlement," said Canadian union leader Robert White, who earlier this year led Canadian workers out of the 1.1-million-member UAW based in Detroit. "There's still a lot of work to do between now and midnight." The second monetary proposal called for a 23-month contract that would boost wages by about 40 cents an hour in the first year and 18 cents in the second, translated into U.S. currency, a company spokesman said. He said the offer, which would bring Chrysler workers to parity with the other automakers, would also match cost-of-living allowance provisions won last year in the GM and Ford talks and would allow all three auto contracts to expire at the same time. White said the second proposal had a "much better Canadian flavor to it," removing company demands for lump-sum payments and profit-sharing, to which the union is opposed.

He said the second offer dramatically changed the pace of contract talks, which had been suspended after the first proposal Monday morning. The union said the first offer was similar to one made to the company's 70,000 U.S employees. It called for lump-sum payments and profit-sharing, which the Canadians oppose. Chrysler said it removed lump-sum payments and profit-sharing in the second proposal. But White warned that time was running short and much work remained, despite the company's sweetened offer.

"Time may not allow and the hurdles we have may not allow (agreement)" before the strike deadline. Workers at plants in Toronto, Ajax and Windsor, Ontario, were poised to walk off their jobs at midnight if no settlement was reached. The union planned to put leaflets in the factories urging members not to jump the deadline. Chrysler Corp. and its Canadian subsidiary lost more than $100 million during a five-week Canadian strike in late when several U.S.

plants, dependent on Canadi Coast Guard Finds, Rescues Shrimpers crewman Donald Brown, 30, of New York state left the shrimper on which they worked after a fire broke out in the engine room about 11 p.m. Saturday. The trio wore life jackets and clung to a raft because it was not large enough for all three men to board, authorities said. But Brown apparently became delirious early Monday, imagined he saw a house and swam off from the raft in search of a telephone, authorities said. A body believed to be that of Brown was found about 6 p.m.

Monday within two miles of where the boat sank, Thompson said. GALVESTON (AP) Two shrimpers were rescued after drifting 33 hours on a raft in the Gulf of Mexico, but a third man disappeared and is believed dead, authorities said. A U.S. Coast Guard crew found two of the shrimpers uninjured on a raft 16 miles south of Galveston about 8:17 a.m. Monday, said Petty Officer Madison Thompson.

The men, spotted by an offshore oil service helicopter, were identified as the vessel's captain, Garland Woodard, 40, of Brazoria, and Ezell Minton, 40, of Freeport, authorities said. Woodard, Minton and another.