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tHE BRAZOSPORT PACTS, Freejrort, Thursday, 1969 PAGE 16 Icebreaker seeking channel for tankers Friday W.D. Skaggs dies; rites NOON CALL NEW YORK (AP) The icebreaking tanker SS Manhattan has entered a frozen Artie channel never before traversed by a commercial vessel in her search for a practical Northwest Passage. The tanker headed into icebound McClure Strait above Hanks Island in Canada's Northwest Territories Wednesday and reported moving at six knots through nearly solid ice six to eight feet thick. Purpose of the expedition is to find a deep water passage useable by huge tankers throughout the year to haul oil C. Walling dies I Services will be held Friday in Palestine for the father of a Krceport resident.

Curtis Walling, father of C. A. Walling, died Wednesday. The J'ulie-nil, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Baylor Funeral, Chapel.

from new oil fields on Alaska's North Slope to refineries on the East Coast of the United States. The Manhattan, owned by the Humble Oil Refining draws 52 feet fully loaded. She is carrying ballast to simulate a full load during this exploratory voyage. Stanley B. Mass, project manager for Humble aboard the Manhattan, reported the ship moving well through the McClure ice and said, "We tccl we have vet to reach the capabilities of the ship." McClnreStrait is considered a major obstacle to a successful Northwest Passage.

The only sizeable vessels to have navigated the strait successfully are two U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers and a Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner. SOMETHING you don't need? Swap it for something you want with a Classified Ad. 233-6351 now. FOR THE BEST "YEAR END" ON A NEW 1969 CHRYSLER OR PLYMOUTH AUTHORIZED DEALER CHRYSLER MOTORS CORPORATION PAUL MOORE MOTOR COMPANY 918 N.

GULF BLVD. FREEPORT LAKE JACKSON Funeral services for Willie Dee Skaggs, 49, of 102 Bois D'arc, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at the First Baptist Church with Dr. James Mnhoncy officiating. Masonic graveside services and burial will follow at Restwood Memorial Park.

Skaggs, a 23-year resident of Lake Jackson, died Wednesday shortly after being taken to Community Hospital in the Lake Jackson Emergency Car. He was sergeant with the Industrial Security Department of the Dow Chemical Co. He was a Mason and a member of the American legion. Survivors include his wife, Lucille; a son, Kenneth Skaggs who lived at home; tsvo daughters, Mrs. Sheila (Doug) Matthews of Angleton and Mrs.

Donna (El) Simon of Port Neches; mother, Mrs. J. N. Rollins of Van Alstyne, three brothers, A. D.

Skaggs of Gainsville, Charlie Skaggs of Lake Jackson, and Marshall Skaggs of Sherman. Also seven sisters, Mrs. J. H. Cooper of Mesquite, Mrs.

Mattie Gary and Mrs. Eber Swindle of Dallas, Mrs. Charles Mathis and Mrs. Ray Lockard of Van Alstyne, Mrs. J.

L. Morriss of Mesquite and Mrs. J. C. Rollins of McKinney; and a grandsom.

Pallbearers will be 0. E. Pyles, Willie Smith, Gene Ellis, I. J. Sutton, Adrian King and J.

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American helicopter gunships, dive- bombers and infantrymen killed 28 enemy soldiers, headquarters said. With the end of the cease- fire, American B52 bombers returned to targets In South Vietnam after concentrating on the infiltration trails through eastern Laos. Twenty of the big bombers dropped more than 500 tons of explosives between 1 a.m. and 2 p.m., and three-fourths of the attacks were in an area 20 miles southwest of Da Nang where there had been scattered fighting throughout the truce. (Continued from 1) system, required under stnte laws that now prohibit trash un'd garbage burning, might have cost no more than $20,000 If the three cities could have shared facility, Partin said, Now, the city Is operating In violation of the law, and correcting this alone will cost about $50,000, he said.

West Columbia is spending $5,000 for drainage work, but other needed projects cannot be completed Tor lack of funds, he said. The city relies on the $10,000 county allotment for street work. "If it were possible to match those county funds for about three our streets would be in excellent condition," I'nrtln said. A new stale law removing the city's immunity from accident liability suits will cost the city about $1,000 a year additional In insurance. Future plans include Newcomers (Continued from Pago 1) guide developed by the Chamber and prepared and published as a community service by Shell Oil Co.

Dinner music and entertainment following the program were provided by the Ramsey Unit Prison Band, accompanied to Brnzosport by Art Lockiwrt, Ramsey assistant warden. In closing the event Wright told the guests, "We in Brazosport are very proud to have you in Brazosport with us. Our purpose has been to extend to you our friendship, our welcome and our appreciation. We hope we have done so. "Brazosport is now your place of residence.

It's up to you to make Brazosport your home. Welcome to our community." library building whose cost Is estimated at $50,000. Also, the police ami fire station is In need of major repair or replacement, and conservative estimate of the cost Is $75,000, Partin said, "We owe it to our citizens as svell as our police and fire departments to maintain an adequate facility from which to operate," he said. present building was our original city hall and has been repaired and added to until it would be almost Impossible to add anything else to it or even remodel it satisfactorily." Further, citizens should have the recreational advantages of a city park, he said. At present, Partin said, the city's ad valorem tax rate $1.25 per $100 valuation, with property on the tax rolls at 50 per cent of appraised value.

To match the estimated revenue from the city sales lax, the rate would have to be raised to $1.75. If this were done, the net city tax on a home would increase from the present $75 to a new total of $105 per year, he said. Planes' courses studied INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) Investigation of an aerial smashup which brought death to 83 persons centered today on how an Allegheny Airlines DC9 jetliner and a small private plane got on a collision course within radar range of the city's airport. "The big plane showed on the radar screen but not the small plane," said Jack H.

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