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AVALANCHE-JOURNAU Sunday Morning, August 24, 1975 Obituaries Lena M. Beck Services for Mrs. Lena Beck, 75, of 213 Hub Homes are pending with Henderson Fuuer al Directors. Mrs. Beck at 3:40 p.m Saturday in West Texas Hospi tal.

Survivors include two sons John of Dallas and Elbert Yuma, one sistar, Roxie Woods of Tom, sb grandchildren and two great grandchildren, Elizabeth Delmai MISSOURI CITY (Special) Elizabeth C. Delmar. 69, Missouri City died Friday in a Houston hospital. A rosary will be held at 7:30 p.m. today at Garmany Co Chapel here followed by a fu neral mass at 10 a.m.

at the Holy Family Catholic Church here. Officiating will be the Rev. Robert Hall, pastor. Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery in Rosenberg under the direction of Garmany Co, Funeral Directors. Mrs.

Delmar, a Missouri City resident for 20 years, svas a member of the Holy Family Catholic Church and a member of VFW Auxiliary Post No. 4010 in Stafford. She was an honorary charter member of the Missouri City Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary, the Holy Family Catholic Daughters, the Holy Family Altar Society the Missouri City Womens Club. Survivors include two sons, George of Missouri City and William of Alamogordo, N.M.; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Crochet of Houston and Mrs.

Helen Smith of Lubbock; one brother. Theobald Fellmann of San Antonio; one sister, Mrs. Alvin VTendel of El Campo; and five grandchildren. Mrs. Edwards KRESS (Special)-Mrs.

Henrietta Edwards, 84, of Kress died at 7 p.m. Friday at Central Plains General Hospital in Plain view. Services for Mrs. Edwards be at 2:30 p.m. Monday at there from Tulia, While he lived in Tulia he was engaged in the furniture business and was employed as a salesman for Ford Motor Co.

At the time of his death he was a furniture salesman. He married Laura Jeanne Gipson Nov. 23, 1938, in Hereford. Mrs. Holmati died Sept.

28, 1973. Holman is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Glenda Stevens of Dallas and Sirs. Julie Ann Brice of AmariUo; grandchild. and one Jackie McMahan Services for Jackie Marie Me Mahan, 59.

of 5818 24th St. will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Shannon's 7 orthside Chapel in Fort Worth. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Fort Worth under the direction of Shannon's Funeral Chapels, Inc. of Fort Worth.

arrangements are JACKIE IVY Jackie Ivy ARLINGTON (Special)--Jackie Wayne Ivy, 40, of Arlington died at 7 Saturday at his home after a lengthy illness. Services for Ivy will be at 2 a.m. Monday in Moore Chapel lere. Burial will be in Moore Memorial Gardens here" under direction of Hugh M. Moore and Sons Funeral Home of Arlington.

Ivy was born in Hillsboro. He attended school in Piainview and moved to Lubbock in 1957. He worked for dark Equipment and was the owner of LED- CO of Lubbock- until he moved Arlington in 19T2. In, he owned Ivy Machine Shop. Ivy is survived by his wife, Retha; two sons, Jackie Wayne the First Baptist Church here Jr.

of Arlington and Brandi of with the Rev. Ron Looney, pastor, officiating. The body will remain at the First Baptist Church from 1 p.m. until the service. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery in Tulia under the direction of Wallace Funeral Home of Tulia.

Mrs. Edwards was born in Harrelson County, Ga. She married Virgil J. Edwards Nov. 9, 1909, in Birmingham, and had lived in Kress since 1920.

JMrs. Edwards was a member of the First Baptist Church of Kress. Survivors include three the home; his mother, Mrs. Elmar Mitchell of two brothers, Fred and Rick of Arlington; one sister, Mrs. Patsy Hartley of Albuquerque, N.M.; and one grandchild.

being handled by Rix -Funeral Directors. Mrs. McMahan died at 11:11 a.m. Friday, at West Texas Hospital after brief illness. Mrs.

McMahan moved to Lubbock from Clarendon in 1950. She retired from the General Telephone Co. Feb. 1, 1975, after 28 years with the company. Mrs.

McMahan was a member of the Church of Christ. Survivors include her hus- hancJ, Harless; her mother, Mrs. Jess Mann of Hedley; and three sisters, Mrs. O.S. Knoweis of Colorado Springs, and Mrs.

Tom Cot-dell and Sb's. Raymond Dent, both of Fort Worth. John H. Mead McKINNEY (Special) Services for John Henry Meae, 7S, of FarmersvJIle will be at 2:30 p.m. today at the Turrentine-Jackson-Morrow Chapel here with the Rev.

Woody Jackson, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Farmersville, officiating. Burial will be in Ridgeview Memorial Park here under the direction of Turrentine Jackson-Morrow Funeral Home. Mead died of natural causes at 8 a.m. Friday at McKinney Hospital. Mead was a retired school custodian and was a member of the First Baptist Church of Farmersville.

Survivors include his wife, Beatrice; two daughters, Mrs. Jean Hutcheson of Dallas and Mrs. Bfflie- Howell of McKinney; three sons, of El Paso, Lonnie of Princeton and of Lubbock; one sister, Mrs. Rhena Smith of Florida; seven grandchildren and six great-grandchiidren. Alice Ramsaier Mrs.

Alice B. Ramsaier, 76, of 2230 'E. 44th St. died at 6:22 a.m. Saturday at University Hospital after a lengthy illness.

Services for Mrs. Ramsaier will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Henderson Funeral Chapel with the Roy. Linain Prentice of Slaton officiating. Burial will be in the City of Lubbock Cemetery under the direction of Henderson Funeral Directors.

Mrs, Ramsaier moved to Lubbock from Midland in 1939. She a member of the Grand Avenue Baptist Church in Gainesville. Survivors 'include her husband, William; -one daughter, Marcelle Cm-lee of 2230 44th one brother, Robert Williams of two sisters, Mrs. Dolly Via of Oklar homa City, and Mrs. Homer Bonner of El Reno, Okla.

Rosie Patterson SLATON Rosie Bloxpm Patterson, 85, of died in Mercy Hospital liere about 3:50 a.m. Saturday. Services for the native Texan will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Westview Baptist Church here with tlie Rev. Birdie Jones, pastor, and the Rev.

Bill Shockley, assistant pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Terrace Cemetery in Post under direction of Englund's Funeral Service of SJaton. Survivors include four sons, C. B. Bloxom and E.

D. Bloxom, both of Slaton, Grady Patterson of Siaton and J. B. Patterson of Snyder; seven daughters, Mrs. Oma Rackler of Shallowater, Mrs.

Estelle Mayo of Odessa, Mrs. Savannah Thompson, of Ben Henderson of Hermleigh, Mrs. Warren Lynn of Perryton, Mrs. Lula Cagle of Dallas and Mrs. Billie Ely the of Snyder; 'our brothers, Charles Taylor of Mesa, Albert Taylor of Tahoka, Raymond Taylor of Arizona and Joe Taylor of' Post; sisters, Mrs.

Eva Gray ot Midland, Mrs. Georgia Lewis of Mrs. Grace Anglin of Corpus Christi, Hazeri of.Oregon, and Mrs. Truda of Fort Worth; eight grandchildren, and 20 great- grandchildren. Grandsons will be pallbearers.

Mary Phillips LOVINGTON. N.M. (Special) for Mrs. Mary Mau- Phillips, 48, of Lovington, will be at 2 p.m. today in the Smith-Rogers Funeral Home Chapel here.

Tlie Rev. Jasper Robertson, pastor of the Victory Baptist Church here will officiate. Burial will be in Resthuven Memorial Park. Mrs. Phlllius died Friday night in a Hobbs, N.M, hospital following a lengthy illness.

She was a native of Aspermont and had lived here 12 years. Her husband, Arthur L. Phil lips, as a result fire in-April, 1975. Survivors include a Sou, Rotv ert Gofinch of AmariUo; a sister, Mrs. Ruth Barnett of Amarillo; a brother, Billy Blakley of Bisbee, two grandchildren grandchildren.

and two step- D. Rodriguez SLATON for Dipnicio Rodriguez, 84, who died in Mercy Hospital here late Friday, will be at p.m. today in Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. Requiem mass will be at 10 a.m. Monday in the same church.

The Rev. Jose Re- baque, pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Lubbock, will officiate. Burial will be in Englewood Cemetery under direction of Englund's Funeral Service. Survivors include his wife.

Cresentia of Slaton; two sons, Pedro and P. both of Sla ton; four daughters, Mrs. Leoncia Camacho and Mrs. Bennia Garcia, both of Lubbock, Mrs. Amelia.

Rodela of Denver City and Mrs. Reflina Martinez of Hobbs. N.M;; 38 grandchildren, 57 great-grandchildren and 53 great-great-grandchildren. Abba Windom TttUA Abba Windom, 72, of Blackwell was killed in an automobile accident Saturday afternoon at -Blackwell. Mrs.

Wuidqni.will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday 'in Rose Hill Cemetery here untier the direction of Wallace Funeral Home of Tulia. Mrs. Windom was born in Georgetown lived in Tulia for a while. Survivors include one daugh ter, Mrs.

Kenneth Morehouse o'. Havre, and two brothers, H.L. Shafer of Tulia and daughters, Daniel of Mrs. Feme Kress, Mrs. McRay Mitchell Jr.

of Amarillo and Mrs. Earl Miller of Kimberlv, one brother, McKinley Wright of Anson; seven grandchildren and children. six great-grand- Heleman Mrs. Dulcie Nehomia Heleman, 77, of 4913 18th died at 4:45 a.m. Saturday in Methodist Hospital.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in the Quaker Avenue Kent Trial Jury Deliberations Scheduled To Res ume Monday D.A. Shafer of Calif. San Andreas It LIKES OLD Art Thompson stands with Cherokee, left, and Modernistic, two old horses he has saved from destruction, at his stable in Palatine, 111., Saturday. Thompson, a former jockey, trainer and rifling academy master, takes in old horses because he uati stand to see a horse die.

He lets children ride the horses. (AP Wirephoto) Old Naef-s Home Rescues Horsesfrom Glue Factory PALATINE, 111. Thompson is dedicated td; saving horses from the glue factory. He operates an old nags': His love for horses started "45 years ago at age 12 in the English hamlet of Preston. An Irish priest noticed how small he was, and suggested he would make good jockey.

Thompson became one, also a trainer and riding academy master, and now he is stall superintendent at Arlington Park racetrack. But all his spare time is spent on a farm he has rented for the last 16 years in this suburb northwest of Chicago. He has 15 aged and broken down horses, including old stable ponies, that he feeds, coddles and lets roam over a dozen cozy acres of horse heaven. Several of his horses are thoroughbreds. ''Trainer Joey Dorignac claimed Prince for $4,000 and Law Pic for 55,000 last summer at Arlington but they later broke down and were to be" destroyed," said Thompson.

'I just can't stand to see a iorse die so I offered to buy them. I.got Prince Ganzer for $50 Pic Thompson said veterinarian and feed bills keep him stretching to make ends meet but 'horses; are most of my life and love 'eni all." H.e and his wife.of "30 years. Monica, live in little home down the road. "Monica is scared to death of horses," he laughed. Cherokee is Thompson's favorite a 36-year-old brown and white stable pony who worked at Arlington as-a lead pony in the 1940s.

-s now olind in one eye bit.stiff. "He'd given- rides- hundreds of kids before I retired LUBBOCK TV FURNITURE APPLIANCE 765-7658 1517 E. Broadway CB RADIOS I ANTENNAS Licensed Technician Service on All Makes I Models of TVs CBs. I him eight years ago." said Thompson, who is a leader of a 4-H Club. "Grownups in their 30s who used to ride him now bring their children over to look at old Cherokee.

They feed him carrots and apples. He is living out his life in a beautiful way." Thompson also has a 31-year- oid marc named Modernistic who raced and won at Arlington in CLEVELAND (AP) A 13-! second volley of gunfire that echoed from, an Ohio college campus across the nation five years ago was dissected second-by-second by a federal jury on Saturday. The six men and six women have spent 13 hours over two days considering whether 29 past and present state officials and National Guardsmen are personally liable for the deaths of four students and wounding of nine others on the Kent State University campus. The jurors began their second day of deliberations at a.m. Saturday and recessed just before 6 p.m.

They are to Church' oF ministers resume Monday. E. Rhodes and Kline Nail The wounded students and officiating. Burial will be in Idalou Cemetery under direction of Sanders Funeral Home. Mrs.

Heleman lived in Idalou from 1928 until 1943, when she moved to Lubbock. She was a native of Arkansas. She was a member of the Quaker Avenue Church of Christ. Survivors include a. daughter, Mrs.

Margaret Stewart of 4913 18th three brothers, Troy Nelson of Hanford, E. J. Nelson of Brownwood and L. V. Nelson of Hamlin; three sisters, Mrs.

Walker Baker of Blanket, Mrs. Fred Routh of Cement, Okla. and Roy Chisum of Cyril, a grandson, and a Pallbearers will be Howard Wiliborn, Robly Evans. J. T.

Stout, Bob Niehaus. Winston Smith and L. A. Weddige. H.

G. Holnian TULIA for H.G. "Ike" Holman, 60, of Amarillo are pending with Wallace Funeral Home of Tulia. Holman died Friday at 7 Weatherford after suffering an Band apparent attack. "Holman had lived in Amariuo for five years after moving parents of the dead are asking $46 million in damages, alleging the students' rights were violated.

U.S. District Court Midland Man Found Guilty A-J Correspondent Lee Pigman of Midland was found guilty in U.S. District Cour here Friday on three counts conspiring to manufacture and possess a codeine-laced cough medicine. A six-man, six-woman jury returned the verdict Friday aft ernpon. Pigman also was found guiltj, of possessing counterfeit plates to imprint cartons for the'pat- syrup.

The jury found Pigman innocent on one count of distributing the substance. A hearing has been set for 4 p.m_. Monday in federal court to consider a bail bond for his appeal. Judge Don J. Young is presiding at the trial.

Defendants in the case include Gov. James A. Rhodes, who ordered the Guardsmen to campus; former Adj. Gen. Sylvester Del Corso and Brig.

Gen. Robert H. Canterbury, the Juard commanders; former Kent State President Robert I. White and 25 present and former Guardsmen, The plaintffs' claims are based on federal and state laws, on common law and on the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which provides that "no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law." The plaintiffs contended the shooting victims were unlawfully denied their liberty and, in the case of the four dead, their lives.

The volley of gunfire came as Guardsmen moved across the campus to 'disperse an antiwar rally. The defendants maintained they were carrying out their lawful duties when the shoot- out to disperse the rally, swept across the hill, turned and came back. They were at the crest of the hill when the shooting took place. According to the plaintiffs, the Guardsmen suddenly and without provocation swiveledj and fired toward scattered students. Some of the students were making obscene gestures, others were merely walking to class, the plaintiffs argued, but none was threatening the Guardsmen.

The defense version has the Guardsmen returning up the lill when riotous student demonstrators charged them, showering bricks and rocks. The defense said the gunfire came in self-defense. ings occurred. They arguec that the shootings, while unfortunate, were not wrong. The case went to the jury Friday after 14 weeks of testi mony, much of it conflicting, on Mystery Woman Returns Purse A-J Correspondent CLOVIS, N.M.—Police dispatcher Nita Black was surprised when a woman walked into the police department.

Saturday and laid a purse on the counter which she said she found in a ditch. Glamorous Gabor wig SAVE $9. BEST SELLER! ONE WEEK ONLY PRICE! Reg. $25 15 90 events during and after the Miss Black opened the purse first weekend in May 1970. ound The woman That was just after former! wh fou purse didnt wait President Richard M.

Nixon or-' to ld en he elf butdld Obituary Briefs Meeting Set Burial services for Frank Hoelting, of Nazareth will be at 4 p.m. today in the.Holy Family Cemetery In Nazareth. Hoelting died 'Thursday Plains Memorial Hospital Dimmitt Services for Ernest V. Kearney. 54, of Spur will bejit 2 p.m.

today in the Sour. Church of Christ. Burial will be in the Spur Cemetery under the direction of Campbell Funeral Home. Kearney died Friday at Methodist Hospital in Lubbock. The 230-ptece Monterey Marching Band will perform at the first meeting of the year of the Plainsmen Band Booster Club scheduled at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday in the Monterey High School auditorium. Title for the program is "The Plainsmen Band in Quadrophon- ic Sound." Featured will be guest conductors- Dean Killion and Mack Bibb, both of 'Texas Tech, and Bill Snpdgra'ss of South Plains College at Levelland. A special routine by the Monterey twirlers and cheerleaders will conclude the program Monterey directors are C. Doyle Gammill and Keith Bearden. Presiding at the meeting of the Reserve Officers Training Corps building on May 2.

Rioting downtown the night before, had prompted Kent city of- liciafe-to ask Rhodes for Guard troops. The troops were still on campus when classes resumed Monday, May 4. Students gathered on the university commons at noon that diy for a rally that some say was legal and others call Squads of guardsmen moved will be Dr. and Mrs. Halligan, presidents of the club.

troops' into Cam- as slle uwas leaving that she found the purse at 21st and Thomas streets. Miss Black called owner dered bodia, many colleges had antiwar demonstrations. At Kent State, those demon- burning Barber Quartet Places Second Lubbock's Singing Plainsmen won second place in the area five chorus competition held in Grand Prairie Saturday. North' Park Dallas'chorus won first place the competition. The Singing Plainsmen will compete in the district competition in November in Abilene.

The Singing Plainsmen are directed by Dr. Don Harragan and were the first Texas chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. was in her car in front of ler home. When she went to check, she found that it was missing. Police did not identify the woman who had lost the purse.

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The meeting of the City Commission of the City of -Slaton, previously scheduled for Tuesday, has been cancelled. Roy B. Davis, retired general manager of Plains Co-op Oil Mill and state and national Agricultural -leader, was listed in: serious but stable condition late Saturday at Methodist Hospital. Davis was admitted to hospital about 8:30 a.m. Friday complaining of chest pains.

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