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Deaths and Funerals p.m. Wednesday Church at Moran Baptist with burial Moran Cemetery, directed by Godfrey Funeral Home. Mary Mr. Blackstock died at Shackelford County Hospital Funeral after a long illness. Rev.

D. Bill Calhoun ROTAN-Funeral for W. R. (Bill) Calhoun 45, a former Rotan area resident, was to be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the First Baptist Church here with burial in Rotan Cemetery, directed by Weathersbee Funeral Home.

Mr. Calhoun died Monday at his home in Denton of an apparent heart attack. Morris L. Keasler EASTLAND Funeral for Morris L. Keasler, 74, will be at 2:30 p.m.

Thursday at First Methodist Church with burial in Eastland Cemetery, directed by Arrington Funeral Home. Mr. Keasler died Tuesday Eastland Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. Born Oct. 20, 1895, at Hughes Springs, he had lived here since 1924.

He retired in 1961 after 41 years as an employe of Gulf Oil Co. He was a veteran of World War a member of the First Methodist Church, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and the Men's Fellowship Bible Class. Survivors are his wife; a son, Bob of Fort Worth; three sisters, Mrs. Carrie Carter and Mrs. H.

L. D. Jenkins, both of a Hughes Springs, and Mrs. Anna Hooten of Daingerfield; two brothers, E. F.

of Hughes Springs and Frank of Jacksonville; three grandchildren. Odessa, Lewis Davis ODESSA Funeral for Mrs. Robert (Bertha Barrow) Steakley, 58, a benefactor or of Hardin Simmons University, was held here Monday with burial in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Steakley died Saturday after a long illness.

Born Feb. 23, 1912, in Odessa, she married 1 Robert Aug. 4, 1940. She was a member Belmont Baptist Church, West Texas Historical Assn. and the Odessa Civic Concert Assn.

The Steakley family has been contributor to H-SU over the years, and Steakley currently serves as a member of the H-SU Board of Development. In early 1961, Mr. and Mrs. Steakley and Mrs. Steakley's mother, Mrs.

Augusta Barrow, provided a major gift to help to underwrite the Rupert N. Richardson Historical Fund for historical research and publications. The couple also provided funds purchase Baptist Hymnals for Behrens Chapel in 1963. The Steakley Room of H-SU's Moody Center named in honor of the family for their assistance in furnishing the room. Survivors include her husband; three daughters, Mrs.

Bobbie Tutt of Austin, Mrs. Dora McCrury of Corpus Christi and Mrs. Nora Whorton of Rule; son, Robert Ernest of Odessa; two brothers, Hence Barrow of Odessa and Earnest Barrow of Eola, Herbert J. Bilhartz RICKEY FLEMING rites Thursday and graduated from Abilene Christian College in 1968. He married Nita Sue England Aug.

28, 1966, in Abilene. He a member of the Highland Church of Christ. Survivors include his wife; parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Ray Fleming of Bethany, his grandmother, Mrs.

Myrtle Fleming of Floresville. Pallbearers will be Ronald Gentry, Joseph Stephens Henck Tijderveld, Bob Derrick, Gregory Hector, and John Elich. The family will be at 1330 Jefferson. His parents will be the Holiday Inn. Mrs.

Steakley MINERAL WELLS Funeral for Herbert Joseph Bilhartz, 76, former Abilenian, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Akers Chapel in San Antonio with burial in Mission Burial Park. Mr. Bilhartz died Tuesday in Mineral Wells after a long illness. He was district manager of Humble Oil Co.

in Abilene from 1947 to 1955, when he moved to San Antonio. He was born Dec. 7, 1894, in Medina County. Survivors include a son, CWO Herbert James of Mineral Wells; a sister, Mrs. Arthur Dawson of Pearsall; three grandchildren.

Big Country Ray Blackstock Ray Blackstock MORAN-Funeral for Ray Blackstock, 76, was to be at SNYDER-Funeral for Lewis Davis, 73, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Central Baptist Church in Burkburnett with graveside rites at 4:30 p.m. in Snyder Cemetery, directed by Bolger Funeral Hoome. Mr. Davis died Tuesday in a Wichita Falls hospital.

Born May 5, 1897 in Brownwood, he was a longtime in resident Burkburnett of Snyder but had lived for the past years. He was a member of Central Baptist Church and a veteran of World War I. Survivors are his wife, Frances; three daughters, Mrs. O. E.

Kennard of Burkburnett, Mrs. T. C. Golden of Fort Stockton and Mrs. J.

R. Moseley Plains; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Edith Baxter of Houston; two sisters, Mrs. V. M.

Minyard and Mrs. Ray Huckabee, both of Snyder; and six grandchildren. Drug Charges Name Californians Two California men arrested near Tye Tuesday have been charged before Justice of the Peace Roland Dunwody with possesion of marijuana. James W. Mussey a Kenneth Zolmeirski, both 20, were arrested about 7 p.m.

one mile west of Tye on IH-20 by Highway Patrolmen Kel Davis and Charles Poe. Last Friday, the same two officers arrested two Florida youths near Merkel after finding some narcotic paraphernalia in their car. Both arrests followed routine traffic violations. Patrolman Poe said Wednesday that the men were AWOL from the Marine Corps in California. He said officers seized a small amount of marijuana and three pipes for smoking the drug, three small bags containing six pills each, three white capsules and four large red pills.

Poe said the drugs had been sent to the DPS lab in Austin to determine 3 what they are. Trustees Receive Report on Needs In a workshop session prior to the regular meeting Tuesday night, the Abilene Board of Education received the report of the Citizens Advisory Committee on the school needs for the next five years. The Board will now study the findings and recommendations of the committee before taking any official action. Reporting for the committee was Bob Kennedy and Don Maples. Last week the committee met in final session and it was revealed that the enrollment for the next five years was projected to increase 1,881 students and that an additional 41 permanent classrooms would be needed.

At the regular board meeting, members heard a presentation on burglar and vandalism alarms and a report from the insurance committee a approved an official textbook STORK NEWS Nine births were reported at Hendrick Memorial Hospital: Girl to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tutt, 302 Ezra, at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday. Boy to Mr.

and Mrs. Bruce Barnard, 597 E. Ambler, at 7:54 a.m. Tuesday. Boy to Mr.

and Mrs. Ronald Rudd, 3535 Yale, at 8:05 a.m. Tuesday. Girl to Mr. and Mrs.

Lawrence Bennett, 1510 Sewell, at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday. Girl to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Hayden, 2002 Briarwood, at 9:41 p.m.

Tuesday. Boy to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gillit, Rt. 5, at 6:16 p.m.

Tuesday. Girl to Mr. and Mrs. Gary Adair, 1201 Hickory, at 6:47 p.m. Tuesday.

Girl to Mr. and Mrs. Orville Webb, 1538 University, at 7:18 p.m. Tuesday. Boy to Mr.

and Mrs. Mike Hosch, 1501. Shelton, at 10:45 p.m. Tuesday. City Firms Gel Contracts COLLEGE STATION Two Abilene firms Tuesday won $136,411 for projects at Tarleton State College in Stephenville.

The Texas University System Board of Directors awarded a $107,550 contract to Batjer and Associates for air-conditioning the school's Agriculture Building. B. D. Click Co. received a $28,861 award for a fire protection project involving four Tarleton dormitories.

Haas Indictment Among 20 Returned by Jurors A 104th District Court grand Tuesday returned 20 indictments, including one for murder with malice against Robert Haas, 35, of 5120 Taos, in connection with the Sept. 17 beating death of his sixyear -old daughter. Haas had been charged with assault with intent to murder after Teresa Ann Haas was hospitalized with critical head injuries. HIS BOND WAS raised from $10,000 to $25,000 after the child died, but the charges were not formally changed to murder until the grand jury indictment was returned. Among the six "no bills" (refusals to indict) returned was one against Manuel Jiminez, 20, of 3109 Vogel, who had been charged with murder in the alleged beating death of Larry D.

Jiminez, 22, of 1609 Shelton, (no relation) on Sept. 7. CRIMINAL DIST. ATTY. Ed Paynter, who presented cases to the grand jury, explained that grand jury deliberations are secret and made no immediate comment on whether there will be any further investigation into the death of Jiminez, whose body was found in his car at his father's home.

Willie Faye Reed, address listed as the 1200 block Mesquite, and Rodney White, of 717 Plum, Apt. 2, were each Children's Movies Scheduled by C-C A series of six children's movies will be offered to Abilenians through the Executive Council of the Abilene Chamber of Commerce. The Children's Movie-of-theMonth program was adopted by the council at a noon meeting Tuesday, a series of G-rated movies to be shown at the Paramount Theater Saturday mornings Nov. 7 through Dec. 19.

Tickets for the movies will be $2.50 per packet and will be available businesses, at council participanting Dick Hood said. "Each packet will include six tickets for the six movies shown in the Nov. 7-Dec. 19 period," he said. There will be no box office tickets sold unless retailers have difficulty in selling them, he said, and suggested a 50 cent price for door sales if the situation arose.

"We hope to place the tickets on sale Oct. 9 and terminate the sale Oct. 30," he said. The first movie scheduled is "Boy and the Laughing for Nov. 7.

Also in the series are "Gay Paris," "Son of Robin Hood," "Nutcracker" The last movie Dec. 19 will be In other business, the council discussed banding together for Monday "bargain he possibility of a moonlight sale proposed for Nov. 2 and participation in the proposed community production 01 directed by Bob Burroughs, music director at First Baptist Church. IMPERIAL FORMULA'S Annual Nutricia Cream Sale the reg. 14.

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Officiating will be John Lang, minister of the Pecan Spring Christian Church in Austin, assisted by James D. Willeford of Highland Church of Christ. North's Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Flemming, who had until recently been in post graduate work at the University of Texas, was found dead in the bathtub of his Houston home Monday.

Police said Tuesday afternoon they had no new leads in the apparently accidental death. They suspect no foul play, but said autopsy results will not be complete for about a month. The Flemmings were in the process moving to Houston from Austin. Mrs. Flemming was still in Austin.

Survivors include his wife, Nita; and his parents of Oklahoma. Mr. Fleming moved to Abilene in 1957 with his parents from Oklahoma. He attended Abilene Public Schools and was a graduate of Cooper High School, where he was a member of the band. He attended Texas Tech Vote Slips Go in Mail mail out the certificates until a ing to mail out the certificates until a final ruling just to be on the safe side," King said.

If the 18-year-old vote approved, and if various votor, registration drives are successful, Taylor County might register 35,000 voters, which would be a new county record, said. a King The record is 34,582 set during the 1968 Presidential election year. The 1969 figure was 28,086. King emphasized that the cards which Taylor Countians will begin receiving Thursday are not certificates, but are applications for certificates. "They must be signed, dated, and returned to me if the person expects to vote in 1971," he said, again adding his annual plea that voters don't wait until the Jan.

31, 1971, deadline to return their applications. The 1971 voting year begins on March 1, 1971. Newcomers to Taylor County, as well as the 18 and 20-yearolds who don't receive blank applications may pick them up at King's office in the courthouse, or they will be Applications for 1971 votor registration certificates were to be mailed Wednesday afternoon to 29,716 Taylor Countians, according to County Tax Assessor-Collector Burl King. The computerized applications are going to those persons who registered to vote in Taylor County in 1970, and one blank application will be included in each envelope, King said. Primarily, the blanks will be to take care of the 18, 19, and 20- year-olds who may get to vote for the first time in 1971, depending on whether the law lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 is ruled constitutional.

"We're going to accept these applications (from those 18 through 20), but we're not go- Probation Given In Marijuana Case A six-year, probated prison term was handed down Tuesday to Wayne Paul Gaskill, 26, of 3001 S. 11th, following his guilty plea to felony possession of marijuana charges before 104th Dist. Judge J. Neil Daniel. Charges involved an Aug.

2 arrest in the 5100 block of Durango by Abilene police. Gaskill's wife, Donna Mae, is charged in connection with the same arrest. She remained in county jail Wednesday. Asst. Criminal Dist.

Atty. Britt Thurman prosecuted the case with stipulated testimony. Attorney Bob Chappell represented Gadkill. Library Sculpture Showing Thursday A model of a proposed statue for the Abilene Public Library will be shown at 4:15 p.m. Thursday by a New Mexico sculptress.

Jo Roper of Montezuma, N.M., will show the model to representatives of the American Assn. of University Women's local chapter, along with art consultants. Miss Roper was commissioned to do a piece to go in the corner window of the library building. Mary Witt SWEETWATER-Funeral for Witt, 90, will be at 2 Thursday at Cate-Spencer Home Chapel with the G. McCarty of Evangelical Methodist Church officiating.

Mrs. Witt died Tuesday at a local nursing home. Burial will be in Cemetery. Born March 1, 1880 in Blossom, she moved to Nolan County in 1891. Miss Witt and her sister Ida Witt, who died here June 20, moved back to Sweetwater 13 years ago.

Survivors are a sister, Mrs. C. B. Scott; three sister B. W.

Wooley EASTLAND was to be at 2 p.m. Wednesday for B. W. Wooley, 85, in the Arrington Chapel, with burial in Eastland Cemetery. He died at 3:30 a.m.

Tuesday in Eastland Memorial Hospital where he had been a patient six days. Born Jan. 5, 1885 in Bethpage, he had lived in Eastlanc 12 years. On Dec. 1, 1906, he married Ida M.

Nicholas. Survivors are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Tina Mae McBee of Eastland and Mrs. Helen Lake of Odessa; 11 grandchildren; 20 great- grandchildren. David W.

Arant BROWNWOOD Funeral for David W. Arant, 68, will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Wright's Colonial with burial in Greenleaf Cemetery. Mr. Arant died Tuesday at Brownwood Community Hospital after a long illness.

Born Feb. 3, 1902, he married Iva Goddard here Dec. 24, 1924. Survivors are his wife; two sons, David of Burleson and Allen of Bridgeport; three sisters, Mrs. Fannie Mae Ragsdale of De Leon, Mrs.

Sarah B. Anderson of Albany and Mrs. Oscar Choats of Grants, N. two brothers, W. W.

of Big Spring and Aden of California; and 11 grandchildren. LeeRoy Jennings COLEMAN-1 -Funeral for LeeRoy Jennings, 42, former Coleman resident, will be at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at Stevens Chapel with burial in Coleman Cemetery. Mr. Jennings died Monday in Austin, where he had been a construction worker.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Cheryl Ann Jennings of Luling; five sisters, Mrs. Roger Freeman of Lubbock, Mrs. Billie Merryman, Mrs. Bobby Smith, Mrs. Lonnie Jackson, and Mrs.

Ira Kenney, all of Coleman; his mother, Mrs. Ethel Watson of Coleman; his grandmother, Mrs. Belle Keeney of Coleman. John Robert Jones SNYDER Funeral for John Robert Jones, 72, was to be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Fluvanna Baptist Church with burial in Fluvanna Cemetery, directed by Bolger Funeral Home.

Mr. Jones died Tuesday at Hendrick Memorial Hospital in Abilene. A retired farmer and rancher, he was born Oct. 19, 1897 in Fluvanna. Survivors are his wife, Stella Mae; three daughters, Mrs.

D. A. Perry of Odessa, Mrs. Milford Creek of Wichita Falls and Mrs. Bobby Warren of Potosi; three stepsons, Bill Cade of Rotan, Rodney Summers of Snyder and Royce Summers of Fluvanna; a sister, Mrs.

Teenie Kelso of San Diego, Calif; a brother, Lewis of Elizabethton, and three great grandchildren. Brady Aviation Company Sold SAN ANTONIO (AP) Excalibur Aviation Co. of Brady, has been sold to the San Antonio firm of Hickey and Rust, it was announced Tuesday. The Excalibur company was an aircraft modification branch of Swearingen Aircraft of San Antonio, a spokesman said. THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS Published twice dally except once on Saturday and Sunday by the REPORTER PUBLISHING co.

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indicted for "robbery by assault" in connection with a Sept. 20 incident in which Blas Baez Pecina of Stamford was beaten and robbed of about $90 here. THREE PERSONS WERE indicted for possession of marijuana. They included Darly Robert Eagan, 19, of El Paso and Lynn Dianne Yell, 18, of St. Cloud, carnival workers arrested here during the West Texas Fair; and Richard Thomas Schatteles, 22, of Dyess.

Michael Chris Howell, 22, of Jacksonville, was indicted for "possession of narcotic paraphernalia." Other indictments were returned against the following: -Guadalupe Pequeno of 2258 Burger, embezzlement with one prior felony offense alleged. -Orval Clifton Sanders, 26, no address listed; Ruth Hightower, 46, of Houston; Robert Dorn, of Fort Worth; Benny Allen Dalton, 25, of 417 and Douglas Wayne Hatchett of Abilene, all for felony -Andres Gamon 17, of 2249 Green, malicious destruction of private property. -Robby Lynn Humphrey, 19, of 1710 Chestnut; Gary Eugene Middleton, 19, of 2301 Huckleberry Ln; and Roy Lee Lenford, 18, of 950 Cottonwood, all for burglary. Robert August Coker, 18, of Rt. 2, Clyde, breaking and entering a motor vehicle.

-Alvin Marion Couch, about 60, of 2942 Russell, driving while intoxicated (DWI), second offense. THOSE PERSONS "NOBILLED," in addition to Jiminez, included: Oscar Wilcox, 39, of 2173 Oakland, charged with felony theft; Bobby Lee Bryan of 1350 S. Treadaway, charged with felony theft with two prior felony offenses alleged; Don White, 30, no address listed, charged with theft by bailee; Gregory Lee Collum of 2399 Old Anson charged with felony theft; and Ronald Lynn Williamson, 18, of 1157 Barrow, charged with breaking and entering a motor vehicle. Man Fined $150 For Carrying Gun Huey Bain Talley, 46, of N. 4th, has been fined $150 by County Court-at-Law Judge Don Lane following his "no contest" plea to misdemeanor charges of carrying a prohibited weapon.

He admitted carrying a .357 Magnum during an 1 arrest in the 700 block of Cedar by City Policemen Guadalupe Duran and John Perry. Attorney Dub Burke represented Talley. open thursday til 5:30 White Swan Uniforms A light double knit of dacron polyester. A fresh new look in an A-line skimmer with a cool jewel neckline. Back zipper Short sleeves.

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The board took no action. Reporting for the insurance committee was Scott Hays, chairman, who said the committee had approved the updating of major medical hospitalization for the teachers and was in the process of updating the disability income plan. He also discussed tax sheltered, variable and investment annuities, however, the board took no action pending further study. The board also approved the appointment of Nano Ortiz, director of the Human Relations Program, to the Community Action Program board of directors. THE CLINIC PAT, OFF, SHOE Clinics are crafted with microscopic attention to the young look in styling The "old shoe" comfort.

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