Times Record News from Wichita Falls, Texas • 4

Page 4A Wichita Falls Record News Wichita Fallif Tim Saturday Mamina Aveusf 1M1 City area deaths I 3 jy Bee beards Participants In a bee beard building contest convention at the university are from left at the University of Maine at Orono model John Wanellk of Hackettstown NJ Jason their newly acquired growths The brave Matthenlus Phlllipsburg NJ and Joseph contestants who were attending a beekeeper Blodgett Derry NH (AP Photo) Innocent plea entered in slayings ONTARIO Calif (AP) A fugitive mental patient pleaded innocent amid tight security Friday to the June 5 hatchet slayings of a Chino Hills family and a neighbor boy Kevin Cooper 25 sat with his hands pressed together and said nothing as his attorney Deputy Public Defender David Negus entered the plea before West Valley Municipal Court Judge David Merriam San Bernardino County District Attorney Dennis Kottmeier pledged to seek the death penalty Merriam scheduled a Sept 2 evidentiary hearing and a Sept 20 preliminary hearing The judge asked Cooper If he would consent to delaying the hearing beyond the time require by law and Cooper answered It was the only word he spoke during the court proceeding Cooper dressed in a light blue shirt and darker blue pants his long hair combed and braided was led to the heavily guarded courtroom by armed officers from the jail across the street Reporters and spectators were searched and passed through a series of portable screens by armed marshals Police patrolled the parking lots outside that got him we want to let him go and we want him getting hurt or hurting anyone said Capt Bob Ault Johnson far Grover Johnson Jr forma- Iowa Park resident who in Bowie Texas will Saturday at Hampton-Vaughan Funeral Home Palma pasta of Floral United Methodist Church Burial will be in Crest-view Park bora Feb 16 1925 in Wichita He owned a recreational in Bowie and was a truck moved to Bowie in 1982 Park He was a member of Heights United Methodist include his wife Betty a Mrs Jerrie Moore of Iowa Richard of Bowie a of Illinois and two Mobley Carl Mobley 58 of 1313 Freeway East No 28 died Wichita Falls hospital services will be at 3 pm Bluegrove Texas cemetery James Henry pastor of Baptist Church will officiate Hampton-Vaughan Funeral Home of arrangements Dec 20 1924 in Bluegrove a Wald War II veteran He was a member of Church and had lived in Falls area most of his life include his wife Opal Mrs Jerry Stephen-aon Spring Texas Vernon Texas Bessie Smith Thursday in a hospital here will be at 2 pm Saturday Church with Dr Rick officiating Burial will be in Cemetery under the direction Funeral Home was bora Feb 22 1893 She was a member of Church include four daughters Strlnga Mrs Guinn Stowe George Townson all of Vernon Ray Gibson of Spearman one brotha John Allen two sisters Nell Norman Okla and of Arapaho Okla 14 21 great-grandchildren great-great-grandchildren signs pension bill (AP) President on Friday signed a will assure the solvency rail pension plan end of the decade He measure was not perfect because of the urgent save the plan for one bolsters the program combination of benefit increased taxes and a contribution of $17 billion legislation the railroad system the only pension plan run by the government faced a deficit billion by fiscal 1988 and by fiscal 1992 Garden ceremony railroad labor and officials Reagan a few months ago alarm that pension system run out of money legislative action rail industry would have been 40 percent beginning he said assure of the rail pension least until the end of The Forecast Fa Saturday August 13 HtahTamparahres Rabi SnowE Showers Flurrietff? Rich Odessa NOCONA Texas Julian Wayne Rich 56 of Odessa Texas died Thursday in a hospital there Services will be at 3 pm Sunday in Jerry Woods Funeral Home in Nocona with Lee Lucas officiating Burial will be in Ringgold Texas He was born Feb 16 1827 in Jefferson County Okla He was son of the late Hiram and Katie Peart Thompson Rich He was the retired owner of Elliott Hotel and Restaurant He was a member of the Methodist Church and a Navy veteran Survivors include his son John of Odessa a daughter Scarlett Bradley of Colorado City Texas eight sisters Smart of Hemet Calif Ellen Toramino of New Orleans La Maxine Rogers and Louise May both of Wichita Falls Rita Shoemaker of Terral Okla Jean Stallcup of Bellevue Texas May Kenney of Monroe La and Kay Worley of Fort Worth and five grandchildren Vaughan Kirkland QUANAH Texas (Special) James Ray Vaughan 48 of Kirkland Texas died Thursday at his farm near Quanah of gunshot wounds Justice of the Peace WO Akers said he pronounced Vaughan dead at about 11:30 pm Thursday He said Vaughan had apparently been dead several hours Graveside services will be at 3 pm Saturday In Kirkland with the Rev Tom Pierce of Kirkland officiating Services are under direction of Knowles Funeral Home of Quanah He was born July 1 1835 in Hardeman County and married Janet Gaye Nichols on Nov 12 1878 in Altus Okla Survivors include his wife his mother Mrs Ollie Vaughn of Quanah two sons Bennie Ray Vaughn of Lawton and Jeffery Wade Vaughn of Wichita Kan a sister Mrs Avis Stnith of Dumas Texas and three grandchildren Stafford Bryson GRAHAM Texas (Special) Services for Lamon Stafford 73 of Bryson Texas who died Thursday in a Grahaih hospital will be at 2 pm Saturday in Morrison Funeral Home The Rev Jack Johnson pastor of Bryson United Methodist Church will officiate Burial will be in Cottonwood Cemetery Stafford was born Dec 31 1908 in Alabama He came to Bryson from Paducah in 1938 and operated a grocery store for many years He was a member of Bryson United Methodist Church and a Navy veteran Survivors include a daughter Mrs Tommy Wright of Graham a brother Delmon a sister Eathel Gross of Colorado three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren Quick Iowa Park IOWA PARK Longtime Iowa Park resident Louis Quick 77 died Friday at his home Services will be at 2:30 pm Sunday at Tanner-Aulds Funeral Home with the Rev John Klappenbach pastor of Odell Texas Baptist Church and the Rev Floyd heard of Iowa Park officiating Burial will be in Highland Cemetery Quick was bom Aug 1 1906 in Pinota Ind He was a retired oil operator He married Ida Fields Dec 24 1932 in Iowa Park He was a member of the First Baptist Church where he served as brotherhood director and training union director Survivors include his wife one son Charles of Iowa Park a daughter Kay Dickenson of Lawton Okla five grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren Huggins Bowie BOWIE TCxas (Special) Longtime Bowie resident Elizabeth Hug- v-x i gins 86 died Friday at a Bowie nurs- 1 011C6 ing home Services will be at 3 pm Sunday at Burgess-Fry Funeral Home with the Rev Millard Fairchild pastor of First United Methodist Church of-' '-feting Burial will be in Elmwood ketery ras Huggins was bora March 22 alwajCTabOrchard Ky She was a gallerptef operator for Southwest-lephone Co and a member 'd Methodist Church fd by a sister Stella 'nville Texas Grover Services 58 a died Thursday be at 10 am Dr James Heights will officiate Memorial He was Falls vehicle park driva He from Iowa Floral Church Survivors daughter Park a son brother Jerry grandchildren Donley Donley Central Friday in a Graveside Saturday in The Rev Sunnyside fe in charge He was bora He was and a rancher the Baptist the Wichita Survivors and a daughter of Big Smith VERNON 90 died Services at First Baptist Forrester East view of Sullivan Mrs Smith in Joplin Mo First Baptist Survivors Mrs JD and Mrs and Mrs Texas of Spearman McClellan of Ethel Grant grandchildren and two President rail WASHINGTON Reagan bill he said of the through the said the but acceptable need to million retirees The measure by a reductions federal Without the retirement private 'federal of $8 $13 billion In a Rose attended by management said that just there was the railroad would soon Without pensions reduced by this October" The bill the solvency system at the decade" Hearna Hina theft a ttwtgun and three that were stolen 1:10 pm Ftiday Police had been pried A B-yesr-old she was robbed of MM in July XL An employee told police a man a coiihoperated High afternoon temperatures and cloudy skies could make a hot sultry weekend A 20 percent chance of rain is expected Saturday afternoon and evening Skies will be partly cloudy through Saturday with a high of 104 and overnight low of 70 High Sunday will be in the upper 90s Winds will be southerly at 10 mph Forecast fa Monday through Wednesday calls fa partly doudy skies and widely scattered thunderstorms east of the Wichita Falls area Highs will range from the 90s in the east to 102 in the west Overnight lows wlU be in the lower to mid 70s Most of area hit by outage remains dark NEW YORK (AP) Gimbels and reopened their doors Friday but most of the rest of a 20-block area that includes the garment district remained dark for a third day after an electrical substation fire started by a water main break Meanwhile Consolidated Edison said it had reported a water leak in the sub-basement transformer vault the day before the major rupture Crews of Con Eld supervisors union employees are on strike worked to splice power lines to other substations and bypass the destroyed seven transformers which will cost $25 million to $30 million to replace Gimbels department store beat rival to the power Friday morning lighting six floors with three emergency generators Offices and the furniture floor stayed dark to conserve power on 32nd Street Yes we are said signs in the windows featured in the movie on 34th reopened just its first flow three hours later said spokeswoman Lisa Cohn 1 The New York Statler Hotel whose 2300 guests were evacuated stayed open oily to find rooms elsewhere fa incoming guests With power expected to remain out until Monday officials said the cost of the blackout in terms of repairs and lost business was expected to reach into the tens of millions of dollars Kenneth Upper deputy mayor for finance said at a news conference that direct costs to the city alone are expected to reach $175 million $15 million of that in police overtime He also announced an effort to qualify affected businesses for disaster loans from the Small Business Administration Upper added that because of the lack of refrigeration health inspectors condemned 175 pounds of spoiled food Wednesday 775 pounds Thursday and 800 pounds by Friday afternoon Leonard Mentzer tort division chief in the legal department told The New York Times the city might be liable for damages because it owned the 68-year-old water main that ruptured early Wednesday But Mayor Edward Koch said Friday: have no reason to believe that we have any Spokesman Larry Kleinman said Con Ed believed it was not liable and spokesman Murray Selman said the utility had no plans to sue the city Officials said there was no way of knowing whether the leak reported Tuesday morning in Con 38th Street substation was related to the water main break which shorted out switches and set off the 13-hour blaze The fire was fueled by thousands of gallons of mineral oil used to cool the transformers Phone company's office open today Southwestern business and collections office will be open Saturday because of the telephone strike said MC McGee manager of Wichita Falls office of the strike we will be open Saturday to allow customers to take care of business that they (take care of) during the McGee said The office at 812 9th will be open from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Saturday Fa information about new service call 766-7928 and for billing information call 766-7171 McGee said Lakeside City Council to discuss budget LAKESIDE CITY Lakeside City Council will discuss the 1984 budget at its meeting at 7:30 pm Monday Council members also will discuss a resolution supporting Wichita Falls' policy of keeping Lake Wichita at a level recommended by the Corps of Engineers A hearing before the Texas Department of Water Resources on the lake level is scheduled next week in Austin The council will meet in the Municipal Building Nrtonal Weather Serve NOAA Dept of Comtwerre Fronts: Warm Occluded Stationary! Showers are forecast for Saturday for parts of the Gulf states and Maine (AP Map) Weather data in Wichita Falls ending at 9 pm Friday: Maximum 109 Minimum 71 Temperature at pm BO Barometric pressure: 3BB7 Precipitation: trace Precipitation to date: 1SB3 ISAS IBM BS El Paso Fort Worth Galveston Houston Longview Lubbock Lufkin Marfa McAllen Midland Paladoe Presidio San Angelo San Antonio Stephenville Texarkana Victoria Waco Wink 41 7S IN AO 75 17 75 111 71 IS 07 00 73 00 00 70 00 A0 30 73 AO 07 IS 00 70 04 A0 73 74 07 11 75 00 70 1M A0 7 00 East Texas Widely Mattered afternoon and evening thundershowers through Sunday High both days in the lower 80s Lows in the middle 70s Light southerly wind South Texas Scattered thunderstorms through Sunday specially in Southeast Texas Continued hot and humid with highs in the 80s in Southeast Texas and the upper coast In the 80s elsewhere Lows in the 70s and 80s Extended Forecasts Moaday-Wednesday North TCxaa Partly cloudy with widely scattered thunder showers mainly in the east Highs in the mid Ms east to near 1M west Lows in the lower to mid 70s Oklahoma: Clear to partly doudy with continued hot afternoons Lows in the mid to upper Mi in the Panhandle to the 70a elsewhere Highs were to be in the mid- to upper fOs South Texas Partly cloudy with scattered thundenhowers middle and upper coaslal plains No important temperature changes Lows In the upper 80s hill country to mostly In the 70S elsewhere except tome 80s along the coastal sections Daily highs in the 80s West Texas Isolated after- weather Thunderstorms and rainshowera Friday soaked sections of New England New Yorka Pennsylvania and the Gulf Coast and brought the first chilly daytime temperatures this month to parts of the Northeast But the heat wave lingered in the Plains where temperatures climbed to 100 degrees in north central Texas and western Oklahoma Hurricane Ismael meanwhile hung near the Baja peninsula in Mexico sending waves up to 8 feet high as far north as Los Angeles Thunderstorms were forecast for Saturday from Florida and the Gulf Coast through southeast Texas and from southeast Wyoming across eastern and centra Colorado The forecast called for highs in the 60s in northern New England and in the 70s in southern New England the northern Appalachians Saturday: 0:54 am pm Sunday: 1:56 am 1:21 pm Temperature Reeding Midnight 87 Noon 99 1am XI 1pm 101 2am 85 2 pm 103 3 am 84 3 pm 104 4am 13 4 pm 104 5 am 81 5 pm 105 6am 81 6 pm 102 7 am 80 7 pm 98 am 12 0 pm 97 9 am 86 9 pm 90 10am 91 10pm 11 am 04 Tezae Hi Lo Pep Abilene 74 1M A0 Alice 7S A0 Alpine 00 OO Amarillo AS Austin 77 94 00 Benumont 75 IS AS Browmville 78 A0 Children 7B 104 00 College Station 75 11 Corpue Christ! 71 A0 Dslhart 14 00 Dallas 7B 106 00 Del Rio 71 A0 Forecasts North Texas Some patchy fog southeast Saturday morning Otherwise partly cloudy with widely scattered thundershowers Lows in the mid 70s Highs Saturday in the lower 80s southeast to near 104 northwest Not as hot west Sunday with highs In the lower IQs to upper 90s Oklahoma Clear to partly cloudy through Sunday with widely scattered thunderstorms northwest High Saturday to 104 low near 70 northwest to mid-70s southeast High Sunday to 1M West Texas Widely Mattered thunderstorms through Sunday Highs Saturday mostly in the 90s lows in the 10s and 70s Highs Sunday ranging from the middle Ha in the Panhandles to the 90s elsewhere thunderstorms otherwise mostly sunny days and fair nights Little day-today temperature changes Highs from the lower 80s north to near 102 in the Big Bend valleys Lows mid 80s north to lower 70s southeast to mid 70s Big Bend of IBM Austin reported the rifle pistol camera equipment watches valued at fl JOB from his residence bet-Men Thursday and am reports said the back door open Wichita Falls woman reported raped by two men wid Jaycee Park at 1:30 pm Make your summer vacation more enjoyable with American Express Travelers Checks from InterFirst We issue fully insured Travelers Checks in xV American or Foreign denominations You can purchase them from our lobby or drive-in Come by today Call 721-2771 InterFirst InterFirst Bank Wichita Falls Texas of Theatre 11 Indiana took MSB in quarters hom machine at 0:10 am Mark McKenzie of 3104 Hamilton told police Ms ear received numerous dents and three windows were broken out after an altercation at 1300 Lake Road at Tuesday Damage was estimated at MAN police reports said Lee Wbigate of 10B Wlnonah reported reds detector valued at MSB was stolen item Ms tractor trailer In a parking lot at till Scott between I am and am Thursday Sandra Horn of MS Elmwood told police keys and a kitchen knife valued at 7 were lolen from her house at 7:30 am Friday Wlc reports said she saw a man in the driveway who then ran behind the house T3 of Holliday a Saturday at rj 40 of Hous- Is at 11 am Jtt Cemetery of 601 Mid-ps at 10am Imley Funer-i-iew Memo- We Speak Your Language.