The Waxahachie Daily Light from Waxahachie, Texas • Page 8

Trustees study lowering of school tax rate in '75 MIDLOTHIAN (DLC) Trustees of the Midlothian Independent School District are studying a proposed budget which calls for lowering the tax rate 29 cents. The trustees received the proposed 1975-76 school budget based on a 11.69 per $100 valuation. The current school tax rate is $1.98 per $100 valuation. Supt. Ben Brandenburg pointed out the assessed valuation in the school district is $49,500,000 for 1975-76.

The school board is to approve the proposed budget at its August meeting. In another item Jimmy McClure, representing the baseball association requested the association be given the old light poles from the football field since new ones are being installed at Panther Field. The request was approved. Billy McDonald, representing the Boodberry Construction told the trustees everything will be ready by the opening of school with the exception of the 11-classroom addition to Midlothian High School. The construction program in progress includes a track, tennis courts, new lighting and bleachers for Panther Field.

Mr. McDonald stated most of the air conditioning equipment is installed. A new road around the Laura Jenkins Elementary School is completed, it was disclosed. Parking Lot Resurfaced The high school parking lot has been resurfaced through the assistance of County Commissioner C. W.

Ralston with the work begin done just at the cost of the material to the school district. The gym floor is being replaced. Mr. Brandenburg reported on the state House bill approved recently for school aid. Trustees were told the tax collections through June 30 total $639,618.70, which represents 97.47 per cent of the anticipated collections.

Doctor quits at age of 93 SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) At 93, Dr. Franklin Cookingham has decided to quit medical practice, not because of his age but because of the high cost of staying in business. Cookingham, the oldest practicing physician in California, said he will retire in nine days. He plans to study history, philosophy and Spanish. Medicine? through with he said.

A graduate of medical school in Chicago in 1906, Dr. Cookingham served as a surgeon and then moved to San Francisco in 1915. Increases in his office rent and malpractice insurance rates prompted his decision to retire, he said. totality my expenses have risen to $11,000 a he said. decided the best way to get rid of them was to The doctor was reluctant to credit any formula for his long, active life.

But he offered one bit of advice: God and keep your bowels DeMoss named to dean's list Timothy Wayne DeMoss has been named to the Honor List, Spring Semester, at the University of College of Business Administration, it was announced today by Dean George Kozmetsky. Mrs. DeMoss, a Waxahachie High School graduate, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill DeMoss, 300 Richmond Lane.

He will be a junior student at the university this fall. DARYLS Prescription Shop Across from Hospital Phone 937-2642 1 The I. R. Irvin band room is completed, the board was informed. In another matter it was noted the equalization board for the school district still is in session, and the board authorized the superintendent to obtain bids for dairy products, bakery and petroleum projects for 1975-76.

Then the trustees held secret session, commonly referred to as executive session, to discuss a salary increase for maintenance department personnel. The increase was approved and will vary with the various personnel. A group led by J. Fleischman presented a proposed school site in the eastern part of the district during the executive session. The trust- ees took the matter under advisement.

The school board rented the Jenkin Elementary School gym to Don Fletcher for square dancing two Friday nights a month September to January. Four changes in school policies were discussed. One statement called for the primary school for early childhood, kindergarten and the first grade, the elementary school to house grades 2-5, the middle school to house sixth through eighth grades and high school to house ninth through twelfth grades and special program services. Other statements pertained to guidance and counciling, honor students and kindergarten. Hunt's sons charge CIA embezzled funds DALLAS (UPI) Two sons of the late billionaire H.L.

Hunt say the family refused to allow the CIA to use a Hunt company affiliate for overseas espionage. In retaliation, they say, the CIA infiltrated the company and helped embezzled more than $50 million. Nelson Bunker Hunt and W. Herbert Hunt said Tuesday their conservative views and their refusal to help the CIA was also the reason for a series of federal wiretapping charges against them. The brothers said they turned down CIA requests to use their overseas Hunt Oil Co.

affiliate and in return the federal government began attempts to discredit the family. turning down the CIA, a massive embezzlement scheme involving loses of over $50 million from the Hunt Oil Co. were the brothers said in a news release. investigation disclosed that some of the Hunt employes involved in the scheme were secret government they said. The brothers were originally charged with wiretapping aides of their late father, in what investigators contend was a struggle for control of the family fortune.

They are scheduled to go on trial in September on that charge. A grand jury Monday handed down new indictments charging the Hunt brothers, criminal lawyer Percy Foreman of Houston, three other attorneys and a retired Texas industrialist with obstruction of justice for allegedly trying to thwart the wiretap investigation. The indictment charged the seven men conspired to pay witnesses to go to prison to hush testimony about the wiretapping. The brothers said the new charges were further indication they were being persecuted by the federal government. Full documentary evidence of the embezzlement was given to the FBI and the CIA, the Hunt brothers said.

They said the government refused to investigate the matter until the Justice Department started an investigation four years later Tables taken from apartment Mrs. Cynthia Thompson of Ennis reported to Ellis County authorities Tuesday the burglary of her apartment, which was entered sometime within the hours of 12-8 a.m. Monday, county records show. Items taken from the residence include a stereo, three tables, a framed picture and a recliner rocker, reports list. County officers said the burglary remains under investigation.

at the insistence of Hunt attorneys. Two mail fraud convictions of former Hunt employes resulted from the Justice investigation, but one of the main embezzlers was not prosecuted, the brothers said. Department of Justice has now caused a grand jury to indict us and others on false obstruction of justice the Hunt brothers said. these charges had merit, they would not have waited five years to file them or used a political prosecutor from the Washington, D.C., Department of Justice to prosecute they said. this cover over by the Justice Department of the embezzlement against the Hunt Oil Co.

and this oppression of us because of our conservative views, we will continue to press that the misconduct be exposed and that the CIA, FBI and the Department of Justice be stopped from their continuing abuses against 1 killed in German train wreck HAMBURG, West Germany (UPI) A commuter train rammed a freight train late Tuesday, killing nearly a dozen persons and injuring scores of others. Police said today at least 11 persons were killed and more than 70 were injured. They reported the first passenger coach on the six-car train was crushed into a mangled wreck of steel and blood. Initial investigations indicated the engineer of the passenger train passed a red signal and pulled out of a Hamburg suburban station too early, failing to let a 15-car container train to clear the tracks. The accident occurred a short distance northwest of the Hamburg central railway station on the two-track line leading to Buxtehude and the port of Cuxhaven at 5:10 p.m., police said.

Riding Club plans play day Ellis County Riding Gub will have a club-member play day at 8 p.m. Friday at the arena on the Howard Road, it was announced today. The public is invited to attend but entries will be limited to club members only, a spokesman stressed. A concession stand will be open. (imc Groner Morton OLDS-CADILLAC 315 W.

Main RF.EVF.S New Car Sales Used Car Sales (Elm Jefferson) T. MORTON JR. RAYMOND SMITH 937-5800, 823-2454, Dallas Deaths and Funerals Local firm loses candy to burglars Waxahachie detectives were summoned to the 1300 block of a West Marvin Avenue early March banks when a resident in the area witnessed the burglary of Drive-In Grocery, 1303 W. Marvin police officials have disclosed. The witness, whom police did not identify, reportedly saw two suspects crawl from a window at the store at approximately 2:30 a.m.

today. Investigating officers said they found the window broken when they arrived at the scene. services announced MISS Finland, Anne Pohtamo, is all smiles as she wears the crown and holds the sceptor after being crowned Miss Universe 1975 in the National Gymnasium in San Salvador late Saturday. She was chosen from a field of 71 beauty queens of the world. Mother tosses son to safety DENVER (UPI) A young mother trapped in a burning car managed to throw her 9-month old boy to safety.

The woman and her husband died in the blaze. car flipped on its top and was being held up by a small said police detective Richard Cubbage. (the mother) hollered get my and then pushed the child out as the car burst into The fire prevented witnesses from rescuing Gerald D. and Cindy L. Stone.

Cubbage said Tuesday he planned to file criminal charges in connection with the accident. Cubbage said the baby was taken to a hospital for observation following the Monday night accident and then was given to the custody of his maternal grandmother. The detective said Mrs. Stone, 18, was driving the sports car which was stopped at a traffic light at a Denver intersection when it was rammed from behind by a car driven by David L. Gamble, 28, also of Denver.

The detective said he would file charges against Gamble, but that an investigation was continuing before determining what the charges would be. By United Press International City A Fest Albuquerque Anchorage Asheville pc Atlanta pc Birmingham Boston sy Charlotte Chicago ts Cleveland pc Columbus pc Oallas sy Denver sh Des Moines ti Detroit pc El Paso pc Hartford sy Honolulu sy Houston sh Indianapolis hi lo Pep 93 66 67 52 86 65 86 71 17 sy pc Jackson Jacksonville ts Kansas City ts Las Vegas sy Little Rock pc Los Angeles Louisville pc Memphis pc Milwaukee ts Minneapolis ts Nashville pc New Orleans ts New York sy Okla City pc Omaha ts Philadelphia sy Phoenix Pittsburgh sy Portland Me sy Portland Ore sy Providence sy St Louis pc San Diego pc San Francisco San Juan pc Seattle sy Spokane sy Tampa pc Washington Wichita pc David Terry chairman for drive David Terry has been named chairman of the 1975 September Breath of Life Campaign in Waxahachie, for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. As chairman, Mr. Terry will lead volunteers in raising funds to support research, care and education programs benefiting children who suffer from lung- damaging diseases. The announcement of Mr.

selection as campaign chairman was made by William B. Henley president of the Dallas Area Chapter. The Waxahachie Key Gub headed by Mr. Terry will run the campaign. Mrs.

A. C. Marchbanks, 87, 1608 Alexander, died at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the W. C.

Tenery Community Hospital. Funeral services are to be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Boze-Mitchell Funeral Home Cahpel with the Rev. Sam Tullock, Dr. David Kirkpatrick and the Rev.

David Kimberley officiating. Burial will be in the Hillcrest Burial Park. Mrs. Marchbanks was born in the Nash community on Oct. 10, 1887, the daughter of the late Mr.

and Mrs. P. N. Roebuck. She was the former Edna Kathryn Roebuck.

Mrs. Marchbanks was the oldest living member of the South Prong Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1965, by a son A. C. Marchbanks III, and a daughter, Mrs.

Charles E. Schultz. Survivors include 8 daughters, Mrs. W. D.

Bozek and Mrs. W. D. Kirkpatrick, both of Ennis, Mrs. Edith Minnick and Mrs.

Frances Hodges, both of Waxahachie, Mrs. Jake Thompkins of Mabank, Mrs. Paul Rogers of Lynn, Mrs. B. E.

Edens of Fort Worth and Mrs. Jack Pinkston of Dallas; 2 sons, James Marchbanks of Fort Worth and John Marchbapks of Waxahachie; a sister, Mrs. J. B. Harrington Sr.

of Waxahachie; 20 grandchildren; 30 great grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. An inventory of the store merchandise today has revealed that the burglars fled the scene with two boxes of candy bars and three hot sausages, police said. No suspects have been arrested. A second break-in today was discovered by police at the Waxahachie High School Career Center, city records show. Officers said they found the door to the cosmetology classroom open while on routine patrol at the school.

A check of the building showed that the door was pried open, but investigation of the incident has failed to turn up any missing items, police disclosed. The time of the burglary has been estimated within the hours of a.m. A soft drink machine was found burglarized Tuesday at the Poulter Fina Station, 112 Dallas city reports list. Police said a small amount of cash was taken from the machine within the hours of 6:30 p.m. Monday and 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday. 90 72 85 68 90 71 83 72 83 65 89 67 100 77 87 57 07 78 70 02 86 63 96 75 88 63 87 73 92 76 1 78 86 68 J.W. Gaston Final rites for James William Gaston were held today at the Boze-Mitchell Funeral Home with the Rev. L. H.

Raney and the Rev. Jack McDaniel officiating. Burial was in the Red Oak Cemetery. Pallbearers were Don Joslin, C. D.

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(Information released for publication by authority of patient or relative.) W. C. TENERY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL Admissions Tuesday David Michael Jenkins, Italy. Michelle Renee Maxwell, Rt. 4, Waxahachie.

Dismissals Tuesday Holland Cox 202 W. Marvin Waxahachie. John Henry Dean, Dallas. Minnie Mae Mims, 414 Flat Waxahachie. B.

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