The Paris News from Paris, Texas • Page 11

11A records Sunday, August 1, 1999 National weather The forecast for noon, Sunday, Aug. 1. 605. Bands separale high temperature zones for the day. 80s.

706 80s 90s 80s 80s 70s 80s 70s- 80s- 90s 100s 509 100s 100s 8 -508 905 -80s 90s 505 -70s 805 705 60s 80s' FRONTS: 1999 AccuWeather, Inc. COLD WARM STATIONARY Pressure: High Low V7 IN 83 Showers Rain T-storms Flurries Snow Ice Sunny PI. Cloudy Cloudy TODAY'S AREA FORECAST Northeast Texas: Today, sunny and hot with a high in the upper 90s. South wind around 10 mph. Tonight, fair with a low in the mid 70s.

Southeast Oklahoma: Today, mostly sunny and hot 101. with a high near South wind 10 to 15 mph. Tonight mostly clear with a low in the mid 70s. EXTENDED FORECAST Northeast Texas: Monday, partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s.

Southeast Oklahoma: Monday, mostly sunny and hot. the upper 90s. Monday night, partly cloudy. Low in the Tuesday showers through Thursday, partly cloudy with a slight and thunderstorms. High in the upper 90s.

LOOKING BACK Jack Coleman, well-known young Paris musician, leaves Tuesday for Santa Fe. N.M. to join a group which will make an extensive musical tour through the west. Coleman is a student conductor at Paris High School and is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

J.J. Coleman, 2303 Clarksville. Mr. and Mrs. J.

Elmer Ellis have moved from 329-6th NE to the Belford Apartments. The engagement and approaching marriage of Miss Luvenia Brown to Jack Banister was made at a tea Saturday afternoon given by her sister-in-law, Mrs. A.L. Brown 211 her home, 931 Church St. Two well-known Paris businessmen, Aubrey Harris and Raymond Sikes, have been YEARS AGO added to the 50 staff of Monday, Aug.

1, 1949 Motor owner 25 YEARS AGO High in mid 70s. chance of Howerton Luther Thursday, Aug. 1, 1974 W.M. House, owner of Jewelry. has been elected vice president of the 68-year old Texas Jewelers Association during a joint convention with the Texas Watchmakers Association held recently in Houston.

Nine confirmed cases of infectious hepatitis have been reported in Paris since June 8, according to Dr. G.P. Jones of Tyler of the State Health Department -Region 7. Judy Thompson of Brookston has been included in the dean's list for the spring semester at St. Edwards University in Austin.

PICK THREE 7 The three numbers chosen in last night's Texas Lottery drawing. PICK SIX 48 42 50 10 19 47 The six numbers chosen in last night's Texas Lottery drawing. TEXAS MILLION 33 39 77 89 The four numbers chosen in Friday night's Texas Lottery drawing. CASH FIVE 7 22 23 24 36 The five numbers chosen in Friday night's Texas Lottery drawing. NAACP decries sentence Associated Press and tormented each other relentHOUSTON The NAACP lessly in the months it can't accept a 10-year to the March 23, 1997 up leading says that shooting.

probation an all-white jury lozzio said he was startled assessed former Houston police- when man Derrick lozzio for fatally him. and he fired his gun five something jumped up at shooting his black next-door times in self-defense from his neighbor, Richard Davis, 46. patio. Evidence snowed Davis Trial evidence showed that was shot three times, Davis, who had a lengthy record once in the face, while including of arrests, and Iozzio, a 14-year in his own back yard on his side standing police veteran, harassed, insulted of a 6-foot-high fence. at t- weather OBITUARIES James L.

Powers James L. Powers, 71, of Paris died Friday, July 30, 1999 at Paris Nursing Home. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 2 at Fry Gibbs Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev.

Martin Vandergriff and the Rev. Elvis Whaley officiating. Burial will follow in the Friendship Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 3-4 p.m. at the funeral home.

Powers was born Feb. 15, 1928 to Charlie (Pete) and Mable White Powers in the Clardy Community. He married Dona Rasor May 29, 1945 in Bairdstown. He was a long-time farmer and member of the Baptist church. Surviving are his wife, Dona; sons and daughters-in-law, Leonard Powers of Paris, Larry and Chyvonne Powers of Paris, Lonnie Powers and fiancee Dolores of Paris; daughters and sons-in-law, Diane and Lorenzo Leija of Paris, Sharon and William Privett of Dial, Vicki and Bobby Crawford of Sumner, and Sheila Powers of Paris; grandchildren, Kristi Powers, Bailey Powers, Aaron Clay; and Chris, Edie, Larry and Nick Leija; Chad, Brad, and Gina Privett; Josh, Jeremy, Brett and Kevin Crawford; Holly, Robert and Blake Epperson; and Dewayne and Ricky Moreland; and several nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be Chris Leija, Chad Privett, Brad Privett, Larry Clark, Ronny Clark and Charlie King. He was preceded in death by a sister, Earline King. Maurice Juanita Bells Maurice Juanita Bells, 67, of Paris died Tuesday, July 27, 1999 at Paris Healthcare Center. Services will be held 2 p.m. Monday, Aug.

2 at the Solid Rock Baptist Church. The Rev. A.R. Martin will officiate. Maxey Funeral Home will have charge of the burial in Restlawn Garden Cemetery.

Mrs. Bells was born Sept. 27, 1931 to Bryant and Lucille (Greenleaf) Styles in Lamar County. She is survived by three sons, John Styles, Kenneth Bells and Robert Bells all of Paris: two sisters Isabell Sims and Evelyn Finley both of Paris; brother Walter Rodgers of Fresno, and eight grandchildren. She was preceded in death by husband, Martin Bell Jr.

and sister, Gertrude Smith. J.F. "Dugan" Varner BOGOTA "Dugan" Varner, 76, of Bogata died Friday, July 30. 1999 in East Texas Medical Center in Clarksville. Services will be at 2 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. I at Bogata United Mark Barton in an undated family photo with wife AP Leigh Ann, daughter Mychelle Elizabeth, 7, and son Matthew, 11. Police say Barton killed his wife and children before Atlanta offices Thursday. Police Burton killed himself when going on 3 shooting spree in two say approached by Cobb County officers. Methodist Church with the Rev.

Kenny Dickson and the Rev. Don Shovan officiating. Burial in Bogata Cemetery will be under the direction of Wood Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 8-9 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

Varner was born Dec. 3, 1923 to Bryson and Sudie Warren Varner in Red River Co. near the Lone Star community. He married Ruth Hunsaker in 1964 in Bogota. He was a retired mechanic and a United States Army veteran of World War II.

He is survived by his wife; a daughter and son-in-law, Deanna and Howard Harper Jr. of Bogata; one brother, James Ellis Varner of Irving; two sisters, Angie Smith of Lone Star community and Margie Goodrum of Coolidge; four grandchildren, Danielle, McKynzi, Lacy and Kacy Harper all of Bogata. DEATHS Mrs. Mignon "Sunny" Bell of Paris died Saturday, July 31, 1999 in Tyler. Services pending with Bright-Holland Funeral Home.

Gunman once lived ir Texas Continued from Page 1A Barton also indicated he spent an hour a day on the Internet and had a home computer. He initialed an acknowledgment to understanding he could lose his entire investment and said he learned about Momentum from television ads on the cable financial network CNBC. His initial transaction was for $100,000, part of his signing on with Momentum on May 13. and first trade was June 9. In a police offense report shows Barton was arrested Sept.

25. 1990, in connection with a burglary at TLC Manufacturing, of which he was president. The charges were later dropped but Barton was fired from the company. Former neighbors said Barton lived in Texarkana from 1986 through 1990. In Dallas, the U.S.

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said Friday that one of Barton's two handguns was bought by somebody else in 1983 from il Dallas-area gun dealer. Barton quiet say former Texarkana neighbors Associated Press Matthew. TEXARKANA Former Texas neighbors of Atlanta gunman Mark O. Barton remember him as being a troubled loner with a touchy temper. was paranoid and thought people were out to get him," Lee Ann Burke, who worked with Barton at TLC Manufacturing told the Texarkana Gazette.

"He was strange but I thought all chemists were she said. "He never took responsibility for himself, it was all someone else's fault." Barton, a former employee of ZEP Manufacturing in Dallas, moved to Texarkana in 1984 to work for TLC, which made commercial cleaners. The company, based has in Monroe, longer a Texarkana location. Records show Barton, who had been a top executive of TLC, was fired on Sept. 13, 1990.

Ms. Burke believed part of the reason Barton was terminated was because he was not cut out to be a manager. "He was not a people person and he had trouble taking responsibility," she said. They didn't have any friends in Texarkana whatsoever. They were pretty reserved.

They stayed pretty much inside. You didn't see them much." George Carpenter Jr. Texarkana resident John Couch, another of Barton's co-workers at TLC, agreed. He was very volatile; he was a loner. He was not someone you could get close to," Couch said.

"I worked with him and I worked for him. I'm just real glad that I didn't make him mad like others did." According to a police report. Barton was arrested Sept. 25, 1990, in connection with a break-in at the company. He was suspected of taking formulas he had created, but general manager William McKinney told police he thought the burglary was an attempt to hide kickbacks, discrepancies in inventory or the possible sale of chemicals for drug activity.

The charge against Barton was dropped the next day, records show, and his family quickly left town. "They left right after he was fired," former neighbor Julia Carpenter said Friday. "They were here one day and gone the next. They sent movers to get their furniture. They didn't even pack up.

They just left with their cars and what they had in them." According to real estate records. the couple sold their home on Oct. 22. 1990. They signed the deed in Douglas County.

two days after the sale went through. The Bartons and his first wife. Debra. had bought the house in 1986. George Carpenter who lived next door in the quiet neighborhood of brick homes.

said the Bartons kept to themselves. "They didn't have any friends in Texarkana whatsoever." Carpenter said. "They were pretty reserved. They stayed pretty much inside. You didn't see them much." The Carpenters recalled the birth of the Barton's first child, Matthew.

was just heartbroken when I heard that he had killed his children." Mrs. Carpenter said. Matthew was born. you just never saw two people more happy or excited. They were just thrilled." Mrs.

Carpenter had thrown a baby shower for Mrs. Barton because her neighbor didn't know anybody. "When they moved in. they were new to the area and didn't know anyone. She had lost a baby shortly before they moved in and I had felt really sorry for her." Mrs.

Carpenter said. had tried to welcome them into the neighborhood. They were a couple, Mrs. Carpenter said. "She was more sociable than he was.

He was real quiet. He was real reserved. She was a domineering type of person." Three years after leaving Texarkana. Barton was a suspect in the 1993 beating deaths of Mrs. Barton and her mother at a campground in Alabama.

I He was a suspect in that case, but never charged. In a note left with the bodies of his children in Atlanta, he denied any involvement. "There's no reason for me to lie now," Barton wrote. (,.