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Northwmt Arkoniot TIMES. FAYETTEVILLI, ABKAHSA1 April 9, 1975 Conditional Use Request Planning Panel Okays Water Tank Site Move A conditional use request submitted by the City of Fayetteville to locate a water tank on Township Road was approved by the Planning Commission, with the stipulation that it be moved some 225 feel lat there seemed to be no to the south. The commission Tuesday afternoon, in approving the request with the stipulation effectively approved the reques of Dr. H.B. Brandon that the water storage tank be moved farther away from his pictur window.

a attorney, Sic Davis, told commission mem bers that "the Brandon's ar heartsick about the propose tank site," which would hav placed the lank within severe hundred feet of their home. Th Brandon's requested that th site for the proposed tank relocated about 225 feet sout rgument ceded in that a tank was the area, "just on to put it." Purdy said ooperation among property wncrs in the area had, at best, teen minimal. BEST FOR PROJECT City Engineer Paul Mattkc aid that the location that hac ieen proposed by the city was he best for the project. He said hat placing the tank at the ocation requested by the Bran don's would make it necessary to construct it 14 feet higher than at the location proposec the city, at an adjusted cos about $5,100 extra. City Attorney Jim McCord informed commission member that he felt the city could place Obituary FHS Senior WILLIAM HAN KINS Siloam Springs--William D.

cquest for construction of a Sreenhouse at 436 N. Mission Slvd. until the trovide the commission wit! an exact plan for the properly. The commission also ap ioved the calling of a publi learing to discuss "dezoning" the 1-1 property in that particular area. --Denied an appeal for a waiver of subdivision requirements for property on Cunningham Lane, submitted by Earl and Jack Gibson.

the tank at location with the proposed without the of the location desired by citv. the Russell Purdy, a member of Directors' Water and Sewer Committee, told the commission Special (CONTINUED FSOM PAGE ONE) Solid Waste Collection Program was initiated last year to serve residents outside the corporate limits of cities and towns. Rural residents are provided with trash containers which are hauled to an approved landfil site and dumped. The Washington County Aban daned Car Project was initiate! in early February. Under the program plan, residents wishing to dispose of junk cars are now able to call Allen's courthouse office.

A private recyclini company, under a contract witl the county, picks up the aban doned cars and hauls them sites in Lincoln and Springdal where they are stored unti recycled. The cars are disposer. "of at no cost to the residen or the county. Allen said that the achieve ment awards will be formally presented in Honolulu County, Hawaii from June 21-25. He added that county officials will not be able to attend the formal presentations.

commission's approval. He said it was his belief that in matters oE public improvements the city was not subject lo its own zoning ordinances. Davis countered by saying it you (the commission) deny it, I think I can make it stick." Commission members then voted 5-1, with one abstention, approve the conditional use equest, provided that the tank ie constructed farther south as equested by Brandan, at no ost to Brandon. In other action, the commission: approval ol a rezoning request submitted by G. Edens for a 1.86 acre ract of property located on Vedington Drive.

The requested cliange is from low density resi dential (R-l) to medium density residential (R-2). --Recommended approval a rezoning request submitted Donald W. Johnston for a .3 acre tract of land at 1245 a a Ave. Johnsto Chiangs Body Lies In State At Memorial TAIPEI (AP) Crowds ten eep lined the 15-mile route as ie body of President Chiang Cai-Shek was carried to the Sun Yat-sen Memorial at noon oday and placed in state there Some of the onlookers knel prayer. Thousands burnec ncense sticks and candles on mprovised Buddhist altars fo the 87-year-old Generalissimo nankins, 49, of Houte 3, Siloam Springs, died Tuesday in a Fayetleville hospital.

Born May 6, 1925 in Eayfield, the son of Archie Lee and Thelma Gully Hankins. he was a veteran of World Vtar II. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Johanna Hankins of the home; six daughters, Mrs. Johanna McKirch of Bentonville, Mrs.

ftuby Smith of Siloam Springs, Mrs. Irene Sorells of Benton, Mrs. Billie Fishback of Lancaster, Tex. and the Misses Delia and Mary Hankins of the home and nine sons, Archie Lee of Tahlequah, James H. of Highfill, George of Gentry and John, Don, Peter, Paul, David and Rocky of the home.

Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Wassan Memorial Chapel with burial in Coffelt Cemetery. MRS. CAROLINE HARRIS Caroline Haygood Fayelteville hospital. Born Sept.

30, 1909 in Hazel Valley, the daughter ot Grover and Pearl Davis Napier, she was a member of the Church of Christ. Survivors are one son, Russell of Prairie Grove; two Scholarship Harris, 96, formerly of Tayetteville, died April 2 in mericus, Ga. Born May 9, 18V8 Atlanta, the daughter William A. and Mary Holt laygood, whe was a member Daughters of the American Revolution and at ended St. Paul's Episcopa ihurch.

i are ou laughters. including Mrs high T. Henry of Fayetteville line grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Funeral and burial were i Albany, Ga. requested that the property be rezoned from neighborhood commercial (C-l) to thoroughfare commercial (C-2) or central commercial (C-3).

Commission members did not indicate which request (C- or C-3) was approved. FOR LIQUOR STOKE Johnston, through attorney Richard P. Osbornc, told the commission that if the rezoning were approved, he would apply to the Stale Alcohol and Beverage Control Board for a license to operate a liquor store at the a Christian convert. Preceded by a military bam and honor guard, the glistenin black coffin rode on a military truck from the Veterans Hosp tal, where Chiang died Satur day night. Hundreds of nurse held burning incense sticks a the coffin left the hospital.

Atop It was a white flora cross placed there by Mime Chiang. The truck was covere with flowers and also carried picture of the Generalissimo. The 74-year-old widow, cla In black and wearing dar daughters, Mrs. Arlene Glowers of Little Rock and Mrs. Linda Clowcrs of Fayetteville; three Mrs.

Lee Phillips of Calienle; Mrs. Rosa Hopkins of Fayetteville and Mrs. Lehora Tryon of Phoenix, five brothers, Alfred Napier of Farmington, Orval and Oscar Napier of Prairie Grove, Everett Napier of Sunny Meade, Calif, and Marvin Napier of Sacramento, Calif. and nine grandchildren. Funeral i will ie at 2 p.m.

Thursday at Lugin- mel Funeral Chapel with burial Prairie Grove Cemetery. MRS. BESSIE COUNTS Mrs. Bessie B. Counts, 80, of Fayclleville, died Tuesday in a ocal hospital.

Born Dec. 2, 1894 Weatherford, the laughter of John L. and Pearl jytle Brannon, she was a Survivors are one daughter. MISS MAUDE BLAKE Springdale--Miss a Blake, 94, of Springdale, die this morning in a local nursin home. Born I2b.

3, 1881 i Wichita, the daughter Austin and Anna McGhe Blake, she was a Presbyterian. Survivors are three nieces two nephews. Funeral service will be at 3 p.m. Thursday at Sisco Funeral Mrs. Patty Dovell of the home one -sister, Mrs.

William Coles of Winslow; one brother J. L. Brannon of Stephen sonville, Tex. and one grandson Graveside services will be a 10:30 a.m. Friday at Fairlawn Cemetery in Elk City, Okla.

with local arrangements by Nelson's Funeral Home. Catherine Williams, a senior at Fayelteville High School is one of 17 Arkansas students announced today as winners of corporate-sponsored four-year Merit Scholarships. Miss Williams is the recipient of a George H. Coppers Scholarship from the Nabisco Foundation. Four scholarships are awarded annually to Merii whose parents are employes of Nabisco Inc.

She plans to study architecture, and is a valedictorian of her graduating class. She is a member of the National Honor Society, served as president of Mu Alpha Theta and All State Band. This is the first of three groups of Merit Scholars to be named in the 20th annual nationwide competition administered by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. In 1975 more than 3,700 students will win scholarships valued at more than J8 million. UA Percussion Group On Tour The University of Arkansas Percussion Ensemble, under the direction ol Luther Meier, will play a home concert in the Arts Center Concert Hall at 8 p.m.

Friday. The free concert concludes a tour by the tnsemble of Hvc cities two in Oklahoma and three in Arkansas. Under the sponsorship of the UA Department of Music and the Division of Continuing Education, the Ensemble left Wednesday to play its first tour concert at Miami, High School. From there, it will go to Vian, before playing concerts at high schools in Ben- Alma and Mornlton. The UA students will play a program of avant-garde music, contemporary.

The Crackdown (CONTINUED FROM PAGE I) the attack on Xuan Loc was thet start of an offensive- against pop i includes Introduction and Allegro" by Dick Schory, "Ceremonial Op. 103' by Paul Crestan, and "October Mountain" by Alah Hovahness, played by the Percussion Ensemble; "Concerto- Grosso Op. 3 No. 6 by Vivaldi, "Introduction and Allegro" by Jack H. McKenzie, and Fantasis in minor by Bach, played ay the Percussion Quintet, House of the Rising Sun," arranged by Freeman, "Dia- Chapel with Cemetery.

burial in Bluff Conway Voter Dispute Sent To Justice Dept. LITTLE ROCK (AP) An FBI official said Tuesday he had sent to the Justice Depart ment for a decision on federa location. Osborne vanted "everything out in the pen at the start." No one appeared in opposition to the ecjuest. --Recommended approval of an amendment to the city's jurisdiction background mation on allegations oi infer hallo box stuffing in Conway County "We had a certain amount background information on lh number ot other and we simply took fhe whole pack age as it existed iid sent it the Department of Justice, said Ray Faisst. Thomas Glaze of the Laws Institute, which has bee investigating allegations of vot fraud in the January Democra ic runoff primary in Conway County, said he had filed a complaint with the FBI on March 12.

Glaze said he and Pros Atty. Alex G. Slreelt of Russellville talked with U.S. Atty. W.

H. "Sonny" Dillahunty for about two hours recently about the matter. Dillahunty's office reportedly has assigned an attorney fo in- said that Johnston glasses, rode in a black limousine behind the coffin, accompanied by Chiang's two sons by his first wife: Premier Jhiang Ching-kuo, 65, and Gen. Chiang Wei-kuo, 58. It was Mme.

Chiang's first public appearance since the death of her husband. Chiang's successor as president, C.K. Yen, followed in another car. Twelve pallbearers carried the coffin into the auditorium ot the memorial. The crowds outside chanted, "The spirit of President Chiang will never die." Officials and their families leaving Ihe me- Four Persons Hurl In Three-Car Crash Four, persons suffered minor injuries in a three car accident Tuesday morning in the 2100 block of Wedington Drive.

The injured were identified as Mrs. Judy E. Wyatt, 24, of 1531 Stephens ningham, nirtgham. Bradley 3, and Tracey 5, both of Cun- Cun- 1531 JOE ESKR1DGE Springdale--Joe Eskridge, 79, of Springdale, died this morning in the Springdale hospital. Born Dec.

9, 1897 in Howcll Counly, the son of James R. and Virginia L. Weatherly Eskridge, he was retired from Welch Foods and a Baptist. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. arrie Eskridge of the home; ne son, James R.

of An- horage, Alaska; one brother, of Dallas, Tex. and one ister, Mrs. B. M. Day of Sun City, Ariz.

Arrangements will be announced by Sisco Funeral Chapel. zoning ordinance by adding offices, sludios, professional offices and related services to he permitted uses in the heavy commercial and light industrial district (M). (Note: AH rezonings ordinances are first approved by the commission and. then submitted to the board for final morial were red-eyed, and some still wept. The memorial will he open the public from Thursday unti next Monday.

Two days later on April 16, Chiang will be bur ied in the little mountain vil lage of Tsihu, one of his favor ite retreats. A Christian service will pre cede the burial. But the state approval or denial.) --Approved the conditional use request of Washington Regional Medical Center to place a radio antenna and small building on property located on Rockwood Trail. --Tabled a conditional use funeral be postponed in definitely in the hope tha someday it can be held on the mainland, which Chiang lost in 1949 to the Communists. PrilchardSaidToBe Already On Payroll LITTLE ROCK AP) Dr.

Ross Pritchard is being paic $1750 a month for consulting by Arkansas State Uni work vestigate whether government would diction in the case. Ihe federal have juris- LEAVE BOOZE, DRUGS HOME Students and others planning to Skynyrd Barnhill attend the Lynyrc concert tonight at Fieldhouse on the i i Arkansas campus are asked to leave alcohol and drugs at home. Stephens Ave. and Harold G. Reaves, 58, of Fort Smith.

In- uries to Mrs. Wyatt did not require emergency treatment. All others were treated and released at Washington Regional Medical Center following the 8:10 a.m. accident. Mrs.

Wyalt told Fayetteville police that she was westbound on Wellington Drive when she oticed a car stopped in the highway. Mrs. Wyatt said she ppied her brakes, struck the ear of the stopped car and versity until he becomes presi dent of the northeast Arkansas school Aug. 1. Pritchard currently is president of Hood College at Fred- Md.

However, the ASU of Trustees has hired UA Department Safety Assbciate Everett Eaton said of Public Director "we want crick. Board dim to replace Dr. Carl R. Reng, who will retire. The consulting contract calls for five payments (or a total of $8,750, plus expenses.

Two payments already have been made. The contract says the consulting work is "to provide for the effective transition in the presidency." Board chairman Phillip D. Hout of Newport said the hoard wanted to keep Pritchard apprised of current developments at the institution and to be sure BOND SPEAKS AT ARKADELPHIA ARKADELPHIA, Ark. (AP) Julian Bond, a Georgia state legislator, said Tuesday that if the opportunity presented iteslf, he would run for President in 1976. Bond, a black, spoke as part of Black Emphasis Week at Henderson State University.

He said politicians like former President Nixon and Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, gave politicians a bad name. However, he said not all politicians were crooks. Bond praised former Arkansas Gov.

Dale Bumpers and former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter, among others, for their CHR1STOPHF.R PITTS CHRISTIAN PITTS Christopher M. and Christian VI. Pitts, one-day-old twin sons of Mr. and Mrs.

Eugene Pitts of Bentonville died Tuesday in a Fayetteville hospital. Survivors in addition to the parents are one brother, Joseph of the home; the patetma grandparents, Mr. and Mrs Earl Pitts of Springdale, the maternal Mr and Mrs. Clyde Thomas of Elrn Springs; Ihe paternal great grandmother, Mrs. Bess Grit of Springdale and Mrs.

Lilli Decker ol Farmington and th maternal great-grandmother Etta Thomas of Springdale. Double funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Sisco Funeral Chapel wilh burial in Farmer Cemetery. MRS. CLARA McKINSTER Prairie Grove--Mrs.

Clara Lucille, McKinster, 65, of Fayetteville, died Monday in a wervcd into the oncoming lane, lilting the car driven by Reaves. Police said the car stopped the highway is owned by Jerry Kidd. 25. of Route 6 and vas unattended. The in- 'estigating patrolman said that (idd, when contacted at work, said he left the car parked in Rodeo Center Opening Set For Sunday 2 P.M.

SPRINGDALE Opening ceremonies for the Springdale Rodeo community canter on Old Missouri Road will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. President of the Springdale Benevolent Amusement Association, Shorty Parsons; Springdale Mayor Roy Ritter, and Chamber of Commerce president Dewey Johnson will preside. The dedication and ribbon- culling will come in the midst of an afternoon open house. The public is invited to stop by the center Sunday afternoon between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.

The public and students are also invited to tour the building Thursday, Friday or Saturday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. As its first display, the center will have the traveling art exhibit from the National Cowboy Hall mond Girl," arranged by Johnston, "Fancy That" by Thomas L. Davis, and "Heaven on Their Minds," arranged by Director Meier, played by the Jazz-Rock Percussion Ensemble. Members of the Ensemble are Pamela Baker of Fayetteville; Randel Blue of Texarkana; Wesley Bowlin of Bentonville; Jeanette Cowherd of Purdy, Saigon itself.

The city is the headquarters of the 18th infantry division and an armored cavalry unit which have been under heavy North Vietnamese pressure in tha area for several weeks. Other North Vietnamese or Viet Cong forces overran a district capital near one of the Saigon government's (ew remaining footholds on the central coast and made a number of smaller altacks in the Mekong Delta. Most of the latter were reported between 70 and 120 miles southwest of Saigon. Stolen Tractors Found In County State Police Investigator Quimby Johnson said today that three stolen tractors were recovered this week in Washington County through a continuing investigation of federal, stata and county police. Johnson said the tractors ara believed to be among 14 trac- William Freeman of Sapulpa, Charles Frost ot Little Rock; Kenneth Johnston of Euless, Texas, Jammey Kidd ot Lincoln; Winston McKeon or Bartlesville, Cherie Robinson of Pine Bluff; L'ynn Schuhknecht of Mountain Home; and Rebecca Teeter of Springdale.

tors which been stolen the past two years in eastern Texas by an interstate burglary ring. Two of the recently recovered tractors ara believed to have been stolen from cast Texas farms and the third tractor was stolen from a Springdale resident in 1974. Sheriff Herb Marshall hat the burglary ring of Fame. Suit Filed Against Twa Trucking Firms A civil suit claiming reim bursement of $2,5157 from the owners of Atlas Transit Inc and Roadway Express two Springdale trucking firms, has been filed in Washington Circuit Court by Northwest Arkansas Paper Company of 500 E. Meadow Springdale.

The suit alleges that Atlas Transit under a July, 1974 said had apparently been involved in the of the tractors, television sets, stereos and guns. He said members of the ring had been exchanging goods stolen here with merchandise, stolen in east Texas. The stolen Texas property was then brough to northwest Arkansas where it was sold at auction. Johnson said 10 suspects have ben arrested in the past two months for their alleged involvement in the burglary ring. He said that no charges hava yet been filed in connection witli the recovery ot the three tractors.

the highway couldn't get it lesses said the because started. car had he Wit been parked in the location for about hours. Kidd was cited traffic hazard. for creating Tractor Stolen Lincoln Police Chief Francis Kincaid advised the Washington County sheriff's office today that an International Cub Cadet tractor had been stolen some- lime Tuesday from a Cane Hill residence. Kincaid lold deputies that the tractor belonged to J.B.

Isonogle of Route 2, Cane Hill. The incident was referred to county criminal investigation division. contract, was i a consigned quantity polyethylene valve bags to the Springdale paper company. Owners of Northwest Arkansas Paper Company claim that the bags were never delivered by the trucking firm. The civil action states that on Oct.

22, 1974, Atlas Transit Inc. was purchased by Roadway Express The paper company owners now seek a claim of $2,567 from the trucking firms for the bags which were allegedly never delivered. Plywood Stolen Glenn'Short of 1647 Elmwood Drive reported the theft of 13 sheets of half-inch CD grade jlywood to Fayetleville polica 'uesday. Short said the plywood was aken from his residence. He valued the lumber at $57.75.

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Founded N. Eart Fayetfftvllle, Ark. T2TO1 dally July January 1, July 4, ThanksTWln? and second Claji Paid at VayeKevOle, Art. progressive "They plight of campaigns and are looking at people, not color," said Bond. He noted that in the last 10 years, the number of black office holders had EMERSON KMONUMENT LARGEST DISPLAY IN THE AREA Highway 71 South Ph.

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