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Lewisvjlle 13 Paris 7 North Lamar 33 Prairiland 0 Cooper 22 Wolfe City 15 Honey Grove 60 Bells 0 Pittsburg 35 Clarksville 0 Hugo Noble 21 6 Rivercrest 18 Rains 14 Rice 33 14 1O6TH YEAR NO. 117 25 CENTS PARIS; TEXAS, 7546O 42 PAGES IN 3 SECTIONS November 16,1975 Dying boy gets his LOS ANGELES (AP) Carl Heart is terminally ill with leukemia, but at the end of his first day at Disneyland it was his parents who were exhausted, not the 10-year- old youngster from Kansas. "He wore us out," said the boy's mother, Mrs. Cecil Heart. "I just hope it wasn't too much for him." Carl, who has been given just 90 days to live, also visited movie star John Wayne at Wayne's Newport Beach home and said, "He has a lot of trophies and two dogs." The youngster, who arrived.

Thursday from Salina, Kan. with his mother, father and five brothers and sisters, toured the Magic Kingdom in his wheelchair. He was hugged by Donald Duck and received a new Mickey Mouse watch before he was chauffeured to Wayne's estate, accompanied by his father, a tree trimmer. Carl, who has been a fan of Wayne's ever since he saw six of his movies while in the hospital, turned on his tape recorder, and Wayne said hello to the boy's brothers and sisters. "He sure has a pretty house," the boy told his family.

Carl was told by doctors Nov. 1 that he soon will die of leukemia, a cancerous disease of the blood in which white blood cells are overproduced. But his mother said before her son was told the details of his illness the boy had already sensed what was happening. Residents of Salina contributed the money for the trip, which ends Sunday, following appeals from his hometown newspaper, the Salina Journal. More than $4,000 has been contributed, with donations ranging "from a buck to a hundred," said Journal editor John Schmeidler.

Presbyterian trial delayed By JOHN EDMISTON News Staff Writer District Judge William V. Brown Friday delayed the trial of the property case between factions of the Paris- First Presbyterian Church. Brown granted a continuance during pre-trial proceedings in the civic case involving the First Presbyterian Church of Paris, Presbyterian Church of America; and the Presbytery of the Covenant, Presbyterian Church, U.S. At one point, Brown told the court that he was sure there would be an appeal of his decision. "It doesn't make any.

difference what I decide," Brown said. "There's going to be an appeal. There's too much money involved here, and money is the root of all evil." Court sources say that about $350,000 in real and personal property is at stake. TRIAL proceedings previously scheduled for Tuesday were cancelled by the continuance grant, and. jurors billed to appear can disregard their notices, according to District Clerk Mrs.

Myra Nell Wilson. The continuance grant, on a motion by the attorneys for the plaintiff, the Presbytery of the Covenant, came at 3:15 p.m. Friday, three hours after. the pre-trial hearing had begun. Most of those three hours were spent by defense and plaintiff attorney's attempting to determine case issues.

THE TRIAL is an effort to determine ownership of" Paris First Presbyterian Church property and funds, with each of the two groups claiming ownership after the congregation split in 1073. i No evidence or pleas were stipulated during Friday's hearing. Judge Brown, hearing the case in the stead of 62nd District Judge Jim Noble Thompson, indicated that both sides should have their pleas completed by Jan. 9, 1976, anf that they should be able to specify which of four dates would be best to hear the case. "I want to have some idea of issues," Judge Brown told the two sides.

"When you know what your issues are, you'll know what the-lawsuit is about. If you don't know what the issues are, you don't." He told both sides they "were not ready to go to trial." "I'd love to grant you a continuance," Judge Brown said. THE TWO sides, Robert. Smith and Charles W. Stuber, of Smith, Smith, Dunlap and Canterbury of Dallas, representing the plaintiff, and J.D.

McLaughlin of Fisher, Harrison and McLaughlin of Paris, representing the local defendants, indicated they had reached some evidence stipulations but they were "not'in order and not in the manner the jury would be able to understand." Burgher place may be county oldest school OLDEST of this old house was at one time the one- room Burgher building. Shown in the picture is Dan Hembree, a leader in the effort to save the school for the edification of future generations. (Staff Photo) 1,800 sign petition Cooper 'Citizens' counter Beierle survey By GEORGE KIMBROUGH Assistant Managing Editor COOPER Over 1,800 signatures have been obtained so far on the petition seeking to oust Southwest Nuclear, a company that proposes to build a nuclear and chemical waste disposal facility in the county. Jerrell Richey, spokesman for "Concerned Citizens," a questionnaire recently group of Delta County mailed Delta County resfdent's organized irf position to Southwest Nuclear's plan, said the petitions still being circulated and that over-one- half. of the voters of the county have signed so far.

RICHEY claimed that the residents 'by "Southwest Nuclear provided inaccurate information and that the company's telephone survey of county residents was "meaningless." Richey, who said he plans to ask for access to the returned questionnaires, added that he feels the documents returned without signatures are meaningless and that he expects that about 60 per cent of those returned indicated disfavor with the proposed facility. "We're (Concerned Citizens) opposed, and we don't mind saying we are opposed," Richey added. Results of the questionnaire, according to Fred Beierle, president of Southwest Nuclear, indicated that 11 per cent of the 3,400 copies mailed were returned in favor'of the nuclear facility. Another 15 per cent indicated they were against and three per cent had no opinion. BUT Richey said that the percentages provided by Southwest Nuclear were based on the number of questionnaires mailed and not on the actual number of responses received.

And the Delta County Chamber of Commerce, according to Chamber President Charles Green, has taken a "hand's off" position in regard to controversial Southwest Nuclear. Green told The News Friday that the only way the See LOCAL, Pg. 10A By ED BRYSON FOREST HILL This western Lamar County community has what may be the oldest existing school building in the county. Records show the one- room structure to have been one of 49 similar schools listed in the county in 1867. That would make the Burgher building at least 108 years.old.

Actually, the one-time school building is the north room of a three-room house, the Mollie Beasley home, and is now owned by Jack and Ruth King. EMPTY NOW and sagging under the weight of years, the old building is barely hanging in the wind. It may not survive another spring storm. And that's where community concern comes in. Dan Hembree, local historian and researcher, dug up the records of the old building, talked with descendants of former Burgher school students and right now is stirring up interest to save the structure, to move the building closer to FM 38 and secure a state historical marker for it.

It has already had one move, from its nearby original site across a lane to its present location where it became part of the Beasley home. THE SCHOOL room measures about 12-by-18- feet, and the ceiling is ten feet high. There appears to have been only one door, and perhaps two or more windows. It has a pine log foundation, oak sills, oak rafters and joints and pine board, walls. Most of the timbers are sound and could be moved without serious damage, possibly a part at a time.

Hembree believes that is what should be done. And he is convincing others in the community. He says the fact of its being the Burgher school was handed down through Mollie Beasley who came into possession of the Burgher land, moved the building, added to it and lived there for many years. ACCORDING to Hembree, Wade Hancock recalls that his father. Emory Hancock, who was born a few hundred yards south of the school in 1870, told him that it was his first school and that his teacher was a Professor Collins: Wade's remembrance of what his father told him about the school and its location, saved -the structure from being lost altogether.

His father told him of the location, but he had no idea it was still standing. Mrs. Horace McCIure was told about the building by Mollie Beasley, who was her aunt. And so was Scott Thompson, although neither remembered the name of the school. Stepping into the large room is like going back more than a century to the time when the guns of a country- splitting war had barely been silenced, when the Blue-Back Speller was the fountainhead of primary education and when seats were rough and desks, where found, were double to accommodate two pupils at the same time.

Now the pupils are gone, the desks are gone all the movements and sounds and echoes of sounds are gone. Only the shell of the old school survives and it is hanging by a slender thread a thread that supplies the needle's eye of the past and sews a vanishing fragment to the fabric of the present. In a sense, the old school is the needle's eye in the old schoolya rd song that goes: "The needle's eye that does supply the thread that runs so true." Administration eyes NY rescue STATE BOARD IN Board of Directors of the Texas Association of Proprietary Schools held its first East Texas meeting in Paris Friday, in the office of the association's legal council, Preston. Here, Preston makes a point on the organization's charter as TAPS President Jim Craddock listens. The association is made up of private vocational and business schools.

See story, Page 6A. (Staff Photo by Esther Wu) NEW YORK A billion state rescue package to'prevent default by New York City was under intensive review by the Ford administration Saturday amid signs that the President was moving toward backing the plan. State officials had hoped to get a definite administration commitment to $2.5 billion in federal loan guarantees or other aid as part of the package Friday, but President Ford told a news conference he would not change his position until the state legislature enacted its part of the plan. Late Friday night the Boswell couple die in auto collision By FRANCES IMON Oklahoma News Bureau HUGO, Okla. Choctaw County's third' consecutive double highway fatality early Friday night brought the year's total in this county to seven.

Mr. and Mrs. Willie Caton, whose home was northwest of on Rt. 1, died of multiple fractures and internal injuries suffered in a two-car collision 1.1 miles west of Boswell on U.S. 70.

The accident occurred at 5:45 p.m. James Sossamon, 42, 125 E. Columbia, Enid, was transferred to McCuistion Medical Center in Paris, after x-rays at Memorial Hospital in Hugo revealed a fracture in one ankle. SOSSAMON'S brother, and only passenger, Thomas Jefferson Sossamon of the same Enid address escaped without injury. Both Cayton, who was 74, and his wife," Pearlie May, 68, were penned inside the 1964 model Falcon automobile.

The bodies could not be removed until Bill Chappell and Albert Meyer of Hugo Ambulance Service pried a door off the automobile. Mrs. Cayton was penned under the dash on the passenger side. HIGHWAY Patrol Trooper Lewis Collins investigated with assistance from county sheriff's deputies Larry Hobgood and Leroy Cline. Collins said Sossamon was driving east in a heavy automobile when, for some not immediately determined reason, his car left the road on the south side and traveled 185 feet along the side of the highway before angling back onto the pavement, where it collided with the westbound Cayton car.

After the impact, the heavier vehicle continued across the highway and stopped after traveling 135 feet. Sossamon's brother was asleep on the back seat of the car according to the driver. WILLIE Cayton was born Dec. 5, 1901, and his wife's birthdate was April 6, 1907. They are the parents of Miss Dorothy Cayton who lives in Hugo.

Three other daughters and three sons, 24 grandchildren and five great- grandchildren also survive. The bodies are at Coffey Funeral Home. Longtime law enforcement officers in Choctaw County said they could not remember a time when they had seen as many double fatalities in highway accidents in a single year. Each of three accidents in the county resulted in two deaths. These occurred in July, September and the Friday night crash.

legislature approved a key element of the package by voting to impose a moratorium of up to three years on repayment of $1.6 billion in short-term city notes as they fall due between now and next June 30. Deputy Treasury Secretary Stephen S. Gardner said in Washington Saturday that while the President and Treasury Secretary William Simon were in Paris for the economic summit, "I'm staying in touch from this side. "There's no diminution of the analysis we're doing," said Gardner. "The fact that it coincides with another set of negotiations across the ocean isn't going to hold the review up.

I look for developments to proceed as soon as possible." Gardner and other officials indicated that any See FORD, Pg.lOA In The News The Cooper Bulldogs will advance to bi- district football play after beating Wolfe City, 22-15, Friday.Pg.ilA. North Lamar's Gary Dirks ended his football season Friday night'with an incredible 1,838 yards rushing. Pg. 12A. 4) The Rocking Chair Philosopher observes that, alas, the President is not a rocker feller.

Opinion Calendar SUNDAY 1-4 p.m. Senior Citizens' Bazaar continues, building, 308 S. Main St. Weather THE PARIS morning clouds or fog extreme east, otherwise mostly fair and a little warmer over area Sunday and Monday. Low Sunday night 47 to 57.

Highs Sunday and Monday 73 to 80. LOCAL U. S. Weather Bureau information for the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. Saturday, courtesy of Observer W.

J. Thomas. High, temperature Friday 66, low 39, overnight low, 40. Temperature at 8 a.m. Saturday 41.

Temperature range on this date last year 51-33. Record high for this date 84 in 1921, record low 16 in 1940. No rainfall. Rainfall to date this year 30.76. Rainfall to this date last year 52.48.

Drive extended on United Fund With 95.3 per cent of its goal reached, the Lamar County United Fund drive is being extended for 12 days, according to Campaign Chairman Ridley Briggs. As of Friday, $119,160 of the $125,000 goal had been collected. But, Briggs'said, there are contributions yet to be received and contacts to be made. Since the date for ending the drive has been moved to Nov. 26, Briggs explained, still another, report meeting will be held Nov.

21 atlOa.m. at the Texas Power and Light Co. conference room to determine what progress has been made. And, he added, the final reports will be due Nov. 26.

In the Friday meeting, the pattern gifts division reported 97.2 per cent if its goal reached; mail contact division, 88.1 per cent; employe gifts, 94.3 per cent; government employes, 104.7 per cent; advance gifts, 89.3 per cent; schools, 92.3 per cent; professional gifts, 108.6 per cent; 80.6 per cent; small businesses, 95.8 per cent; county communities, 80.7 percent; and county schools, 122 per cent. 4O 50 60 30 1 70.