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NORTHWEST ARKANSAS TIMES, Arkdntas, Wednesday, May 3, 1961 Special Team Inspects Army ROTC At U. A. An inspection team representing the commanding general, Fourth U. S. Army is conducting the yearly formal and general inspectioi of the University's Army ROTC department.

Col. William J. Stover, chief the ROTC division, Headquarters Kourth A and his five man inspection team were present at today's drill, having studied other phases of the Army HOTC department over the past two days. They conducted an individual personal inspection of Ihe cadets and viewed the parade which followed. Purpose of the inspection is to check the status of the A ROCT program here by observing all military facilities and oasses and to determine the r-a 11 knowledge and drill proficiency of the cadets.

The Army ROTC honor guard and drill team greeted Colonel Stover when he arrived on campus yesterday morning to begin the inspection. Afterwards he was briefed on the local ROTC program by Col. Linwood Griffin, professor of military science and tactics. Obituary Ezra Carrigan Kuncral services for Ezra Carrigan, 77, who died Saturday af- lernoon were conducted Tuesday afternoon in McCoid Community Church by the Rev. Daniel Evans.

Burial in McCu-d cemetery under direction ct Nelson Fu- ncarl Home. Pallbearers were Roe S. E. Carter Oscar West, Sam and Doyle Collins and A. R.

Ratliff. Miss Sadie Emily Monroe SILOAM SPRINGS (Special) services for Miss Sadie Smily Monroe, 78, Gcnlry banker who died unexpectedly a night in Quincy, 111., will be conducted at 2 p.m., Thursday in the First Methodist Church in Gentry ty the Rev. Ray Edwards. Burwill be in Gentry cemetery under the direction of Wasson Funeral Home. Ernest W.

Cato GRAVETTE (Special) Ernjst W. Cato, 84, died Monday in Gra- vetle Medical Center Hospital after an extended illness. Born Oct. 7, 1876 in Fayetteviitc he moved to Gravetle In 1898 where he operated a grocery store for 22 years and managed an automotive sales agency. He was a member ol Presbyterian Church and married Miss Annie Cox in Fayetlcville in 1896, who is his only known surviv- r.

Funeral services were scheduled to be conducted this afternoon at 2 p.m. in the Gravette Presby lerian Church by the Rev. Bob William. Burial was to be in Hillcrest cemetery under direction of Pyeatte Funeral Service. CEASE-FIRE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE announced Tuesday a provisiona cease-fire was in effect in the front area astride the Luang Pra bang-Vientiane highway where they were meeting.

Maintaining the Communist stand that Souvanna Phouma is still the only legal premier of Laos and Kong Le his "supreme commander," the rebel broadcasts said the captain had pro. posed the cease-fire to the Pathet Lao as well as ordered it for his own troops, presumably Ihe remnant of the paralroop battalion that carried out his coup last August. "Headquarters of the patriotic Mrs. Lillian Wheat SILOAM SPRINGS (Special) Mrs. Lillian Wheat, 86, former resident of Gentry, died Tuesday in a BenlonviHe convalescent home after an extended illness.

She was member of the Order of Ihe Eastern Star. Survivors are two gi andsons and a grandaughter. Graveside funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m., Thursday in the 'Jontry cemetery by the Rev. Dennis Jcch under direction Home. of Wasson a i i a Lewis Howland SILOAM SPRINGS (Special) -Funeral services (or Wiiliam Lewis Howland, 75, resident of Gentry, who died un -'xpeciedly al his home last Salurday.

be conducted al 2 p.m. Thursday in Ihe Chrislian Church in Gentry by the Rev. Herman Payden. Burial will be in under the direc lion of Wasson Funeral Home. Mrs.

Sarah E. Shackelford SILOAM SPRINGS (Special) -Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Shackelford, died Saturday morning at a local hospital after a long illness. She was born in Washington County, and moved to Delaware in 1916 and had resided there since. She was a resident of Kansas, and was a a member of the Rebecca and a member of the Church of Christ.

Survivors are two sons, Elmer of Kansas, and Harry of Laverne, two daughters. Mrs. Maude Beck of Flint, and Mrs. Blanche Skelton of With- ita, six brothers, i Hobbs and C. both of Claremore.

Clay and Lewis, both of California, George of Teresita, and i of Fayetteville; two sisters, Mrs. Nannie Ratliff of Kansas City, and Miss Opal Hobbs of California; 26 grandchildren and 45 great-grandchildren. services were held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Kansas, Okla. High School gymnasium with Marvin Phillips and Fred Webb officiating.

Burial was in the Kansas cemetery under direction of Pyeatte Funeral Home of S'Uiam Springs. Prairie Grove Students To Go On Trip Friday PRAIRIE GROVE Members of the senior class at Pralrio Grove High School will leave at 4:30 P.M. Friday lor Gulfport, on Its' annual tour. While Gulfport, the seniors will make sightseing tours which wlil include deep sea fishing a visits to famous places. They will also make a one-day trip to New The class will leave Gulfport May 11 and will go to Memphis on May 12 where they will attend tho Cotton Festival before returning home May 13.

Sponsors on the trip are Glenn Wilson and Miss Ruth Bull, Prairie Grove high school teachers. NEW YORK STOCKS Furn fng Ulwl by Inc. Edwin A Ross SILOAM SPRINGS (Spi'c'al) -Laos fighting units has, acting on uneral services for Edwin Arhur Ross, resident of 123 North Ihe proposal of supreme com-: mander Captain Kong Lc, ordered all military units under its command to cease firing as of 8 a.m. Laos lime," the Pathet Lao broadcast said. Kong Le called on Ihe Vientiane send dele- gales without dejiy to negotiate at the village of Na Mon, seven miles south of Vang Vicng, or in the area of Hin Keup, another village in the no-man's land where the Nam Lik River crosses the north-south highway.

It was in approximately that area that the Vientiane government's representative mcl Pathet Lao representativs. Dispatchs from Vientiane, re ceived before the rebel cease-fire order, had no word of the outcome of Tuesday's conference. Thre was no word from Vien- lian following the rebel broadcasts, but communica tions with the Laotian capital are slow and uncertain. Boun Oum's foreign minister. Tiao Sopsaisana, said his govern ment's envoy, Lt.

Col. Siho Lam holinthakhou, was instructed to avoid political issues and negotiate only for a quick cease-fire and a lime and place for further meetings of Vientiane representa lives with those of the Pathet Lao and Souvanna Phouma. The cease-fire is supposed be the prelude to a 14-nation con ference scheduled lo start Ma 12 in Geneva to work out a per manent peace for Laos. Th United Stales and Britain hav'' said they would not attend, how ever, until an end to the fightin, is verified. A three-nation commission, made up of India Canada and Poland, is due i Laos later this week to supervis the cease-fire.

The Boun Oum regime and th Pathet Lao still have to work ou a coalition government to represent Laos at the Geneva conference. Street, Siloam Sorings, who led unexpectedly Friday evening I Memorial Hospital, were con- uclcd at 10 a.m., Tuesday in the lapel of Wasson Fune-al Home the Rev. Clifford Palmei Bural was in Oak Hill cerao'piy. Alum Am Air Am Bosch Am Tel Am Tob Am Cyan Am Mot Anaconda Bendlx Beth Steel Burroughs Burlington Camp Soup Cessna Cen Soya Chrysler Dan Riv Fib Paper Ford Gen Elec Gen Mot GulT Johns Man Cen 18' Math 43 Am Air 19 5731 139 WjIRevlon Steel CHllRoy Dut 47 1 34 IStevena Mob 39WStd of Jer Kollsman 45H 42V 'Slud Pack 14WTex Gull Co Air 62'iiUS Steel 1T.1 871 St. Paul School Announces Honor Students HUNTSVILLE (Special) Joe Johnson has been named valedictorian of the St.

Paul High School and Dorothy Sparks is saluta.onan of Ihe senior class. Other honor students in Ihe school are: Seventh; average, Kay Eaten, Sammy Bivens, Virginia Ward, Linda Lou Glenn, Larry Braimon and Grace Hall. Eighth Grade; A average; Phyllis Donahue, Twyla Judy and Shir ley Davis; average; Bessie Baker, David Shepherd and Mar tha Glenn. Ninth grade; A average; Mcs cha Riddle, Carol Brannon and Sui Shackjeford; average Jerry Ogden, Verla Sanders, Lynettc Jor dan, Louise Barnett and Lind Bowling; Tenth Grade; average; Jer ry Wages, Lucille Maggard, Shir ey Wages, Joe Bivens, Roger Wi ams, Katherine Davenport an Dora Beth Walker; average Lucille Maggard, Shirley Wage and Roger Williams. Eleventh grade; A averagi i'ern Bennett and Shirley Johnson average; Fern Bennett, Shirle Johnson, Larry Judy and Wand Simmons; 12th grade; average; Vio Smith, Sharon Lewis, Betty Va jrunt, Wilma Masterson and Ke Power Project Starts Southwestern Builds Transmission Line 42 Pac 66 ISper Rand 33 Kerr McGce 112'AArk West 16-1 Ling Temco 34 Candel 4 Lorlllard IS Lone Star Cc Std Register 65- Lowensteln Ahrt Mohasco 11'iArJc La Gas 43' Mon-santo 46V IPren Hall 42 Mont Ward Averages Ind Hails Ute .34 1st llr.

1,060,000 neth Smith. Approval of Southwestern Elec-j Power Company plans to build .3 miles of high voltage Irans- ission line at a cost of S932.000 om the companys Dyess electric sub-station in Springdale lo the Beaver dam site was the signal for work to start on one phase of the project, It has been announced by Marvin Murphy, Fayelteville POULTRY MARKET The poultry market today as re- orted by the Federal and State arkel News Service, University Arkansas and the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Estimated slaughter of broilers and fryers by Arkansas processors today 743,000 head.

Offerings barely adequate many points; adequate at others. Prices and volume at farm 842,700 head, wts. 15 percent 13, 1 percent 14, 29 percent at undetermined prices, 55 percent intra-company transfers. Prices undetermined Include lots under contract to buyers, those sales based on the market ant other reasons. Hwy.

71 Project The Arkansas Highway Com mission will open on May 24 a sc rics of bids on road and bridg work throughout the state. Inclufl cd among the projects is a three segment resurfacing job on U.S Hwy. 71 between Winslow an Mountainburg. About 2,000 feet this work will be done in Washin ton County just north of the Cra ford County line. arty Set For Next 'ear's First Graders LINCOLN (Special)--A party foi rst grade pupils who will enrol ext a will be held at 2 p.m.

londay, May 8, at the Lincoln lementary school. Children who 'ill be 6 years old before Jan. 1 962. are invited to attend. Den metings here will be dis onlinued when school dismisse.

or summer vacation, but pac nectiiigs will be held the 1 a Thursday of every month at th D. Carter home on Sugar HI road. These meetings will be het at 7 p.m. out of doors. Den mee ngs will resume when school re convenes in the fall.

Fire Extinguished SPRINGDALE i a Springdale firemen extinguished fire at the Frankie Bobbins res dence one and a half miles fro Springdale on the Monitor Roa late Monday evening. The fire was started when el trical wiving shorted out and fell down on a pile of clothes in a wash room, setting the clothes afire, firemen said. vision manager for Southwest- n. Approval for this line wai anted by the Arkansas Public Tvicc Commission. When completea, me new transmission line will pro- ide the second high voltage feed ir the company's Northwest Aransas area.

A line built from the Dyess sub-sta- In Boudinot, in 1960. The L. E. Myers Company, onyview. Texas, will build 16 iles of line from a point east of togers to the construction site for ieaver dam.

This section of line provide kilowatts of now- to service the general contrac- ors. The power will be delivered the CarrSl Electric Co-op, vhich will serve the contractors the dam site. Right-of-way clearance for this segment of line ias already started. The 16-mile section will be'operated at 33,008 oltage until the entire line has been completed. Murphy said this section of line is scheduled to be completed around July 1.

This new line is I be completed by 1955 to interconnect with the lovernment's Southwest Administration hydro-electric power supply al Beaver dam. The new high voltage transraii- sion line is being built to take care of the continued rapid growth of Northwest Arkansas in years Murphy said. He noted that this section of the slate served by Southwestern has shown a greater growth since the end of World War II than any other area in the company's tri-state electric coverage. Loy Mark Stevens Ley Mark Stevens, of 2. resident West Fork, died this morning in a local hospital after an extended illness.

He was born De- cember 22,1958 In California. Survivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Stevens of West Fork. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Nelson's Funeral Home.

Adam V. Drain Adam V. Drjn, 5S. rei'deit of Ikins community died Tuesday morning in a local hospital fol- owing a short illness. Mr.

Drain was born October 9. 1903 at Ash- son of Ihe late Samuel and Fronia Drain. Survivors are three sons, Verlon Drain, L. D. Drain, and Ted Drain, all of i Idaho; hree daughters, Mrs.

Sylvia Dav- of a Mrs. Goldie Ledbeller and Miss Esther Ann Drain, both of Wilder; one rother Dan Drain of Asher; six sisters. Mrs. Martha Miller of Rog- Mrs. Rudy Hill and Delia Combs, both of Thorney, Mrs.

Flora Drain and Mrs. Ma Runaway, both of Asher and Mrs. Meadow of Fayetteville; and nine grandchildren. Funeral arrangements announced by Nelson's Home. will be Funeari Break-In On Hwy.

16 Nets Brand New Gun A new Savage .110 and .22 over and undershot shotgun was taken from the barn at the Jess An derson place, north of Tipton's Garage on Hwy. 16. Sheriff Hallis Spencer reported this moring. The break-in was reported to the sheriff's office Tuesday. Entrance to the bam was gained by prying the.

lock off the door. Inside the intruder broke the lock- on a cabinet and took the gun Several other Hems were also taken, Sheriff Spencer said. James Olen Lankford SILOAM SPRINGS (Special) -James Olen Lankford, 77, resident of Siloam Springs died Tuesday at his home after a short illness. Born in Washington County he was a member of the Chrislian Church and a retired farmer. Survivors are the widow, Hattie, of the home; two Charles and Don, of the home; three daughters, Miss Gladean Lankford of the home, Mrs.

Zelma of Hunlington Park, and Mrs. Reba Easley of Sparks, two sisters, Mrs. Flora DeGraff of Los An- jeles and Mrs. Pearl Brough of jynwood, Ihree brothers, Charley of Lynwood and and Will both of Siloam Springs; two grandchildren and two great- grandchildren. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Pyeatte Funeral Service.

You'll find variety like this only at your Chevrolet dealer's One-Stop Shopping Center Mrs. Florence Wade Funeral services for Mrs. Florence i Wade, 93. who died Friday were conducted Tuesday morning in the chapel of Nelson's Funeral Home the Rev. Charles Andrus, pastor of Presbyterian Church.

Burial was cemetery. Pallbearers were Ronnie Woodruff, Steve Cummings, Bill Allen Rose, Richard Ho.l and To- gar White. WAIT! Don't Buy Yet! Watch for LINKWAY'S Gigantic MAY HARDWARE and FURNITURE SALE! See Thursday's Times Congratulations, Miss of A. of 1961 JUDY EOFF Kappa Kappa Daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

J. W. Eoff of Fayetteville Above, Miss Eoff wears a Rose Marie Reid swirnsuit from the Boston Store during her winning appearance in the Gaebale beauty pageant lasl Friday night. New 9-PiBsenger BROOKWOOD STATION WAGON There's a choice of lix Chevrolet from budget-wias Brookwoods to luxurious Nomads--each with cargo opening nearly 6 ft. across.

New IMPALA 2-DOOR SEDAN Nothing combines elegance with practicality quite like these Impalas, most sumptuous Chevrolets of all. And there'g a full line of five to choose from. New CORVAIR MONZA CLUB COUPE Here's the family man's sports car with bucket teats up front and the famed traction and ease of handling that stems from Corvair's rear engine. JET-SMOOTH CHEVROLETS, nimble Corvairs, the one-and-only Corvette you'll find just about any kind of car you could ask for under one roof at your Chevrolet dealer's. Pick and choose from thrifty full-sized Chevrolet Biscaynes, popular Bel Airs, sumptuous Impalas, or six handy, handsome Chevrolet station wagons.

Size up the agile, sure-footed Corvair sedans and coupes and family-lovin' Corvair wagons. There are 31 models in ail- practically any size and shape for any type of going. Why not drop in and see how easy you can do your new car shopping in just one stop! Register for Free Swimsuit By Rose Marie Reid No purchase ii necessary. Just come in anytime and register in our Sportswear Department for a Rose Marie Reid swimsuH to given away by drawing Friday, May 19, 1961, at 5 p.m. You need not be present to win.

Be! Air S-Door Sedan CHEVROLET'S GOT MORE OF WHAT IT TAKES and that's why more people are taking to it. solid comfort. All this with a slimmer, trimmer That built-in "Jet-smooth ride, for instance. Body shape that gives relaxing roominess inside. No by Fisher refinements you'll find in no other car in wonder Chevrolet's the most popular on the high- Chevy's field.

Big and little things that add up to way and the buy-way! See the new Chevrolet at your local authorized Chevrolet dealer's One-Stop Shopping Center GREEN CHEVROLET COMPANY 17 E. MEADOW FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS PHONE 2-8226.

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