a of of a a THE ODESSA AMERICAN TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1967 Birch's Widow Mum At Probe DALLAS (AP) Pearl Birch, widow of aged California millionaire A. Otis Birch, said she could "answer nothing' Monday at estatearing concerning Birch's Probate Judge F. W. Bartlett Jr. threatened to put her in jail for contempt of court unless she answered questions regarding.
names she formerly lived under. Lawyers agreed, after a heated excmange, to recess the proceeding. Bartlett set May 9 as the new date. The hearing had been called so that Mrs: Birch could be questioned about what property Birch might have held in Texas when he died in Dallas March 15 at the age of 95. Mrs.
Birch has filed a will Continued From Poge 1 any time to meet with or contact the Hanoi authorities either directly or through the good offices of a third party such as Canada." The Canadian proposals ment, possibly in the demilitarcalled for "some disengageized zone between North and South Vietnam, together with a cessation of U.S. bombing of North Vietnam and of Communist infiltration of the South, (2) freezing military action in South Vietnam at the present level, and (4) withdrawal of forces on (3), cessation of all hostilities, ither side of the 17th Parallel. The South Vietnamese gave no distance for the pullback they proposed from the six-milewide demilitarized zone which straddles the 17th Parallel. U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops continued bulldozing a cleared strip below the eastern part of the zone.
The United States has been shifting its forces to provide reinforcements in the northern provinces just below the zone. In the air war, U.S. planes flew 101 bombing missions over North Vietnam Monday, but spokesmen said poor limited the strikes to the coastal regions and the southern panhandle. Pilots claimed destroying or damaging 83 cargo and three gun' sites. barges, 14 trucks, six bridges South Vietnamese headquarters reported, two more Viet Cong today against teams of pacification workers, a prime target for enemy attacks in recent weeks.
One attack was against a pacification team near Ban Me Thuot, in the central highlands, and the other against a team near My Tho, in the Mekong Delta. The headquarters said the teams suffered light casualties. Mishaps Cause Minor Injuries Three were persons who suffered fractures given emergency room treatment at Medical Center Hospital this weekend and later were released. Mrs. Ida Adams, 62, 401 East Third, suffered a fractured forearm when she fell in her home.
Henry M. Jackson, 59, 113 Bell Drive, suffered a fractured finger when some heavy equipment fell on his hand at an oil field site. Another man, Richard Berron, 27, El Paso, said he fractured his shoulder in a mishap at Penwell. Crane Schedules Summer Classes CRANE (Special) Summer school classes at Crane Independent School will be held June 5 through July 14 with registration scheduled on June 5. Courses scheduled are mathematics, history, government, English and driver education, the latter a non-credit course, ending on July 28.
Dr. W. A. Miller, superintendent of schools, said a fee of $15 will be charged for each course, or if a student takes two courses the fee will be $25.00. Three Facing DWI Complaints Two persons were in Ector County jail Monday morning on charges of driving while intoxicated, while another was released over the weekend after posting bond.
In jail were Jesse J. Dominquez, 28, 916 Prairie, who was being held in lieu of a $750 bond set by Justice of the Peace T. B. Wedgeworth, and Julio D. Mata, 18, Pecos, held under a $1,000 bond set by Justice of the Peace J.
A. Purifoy. Another man, Terry Dale Nichols, 25, Monahans, released after he posted a $750 bond set by Peace Justice Purifoy. 4 Downtown Bar Burglarized Burglars broke into several buildings over the weekend but made off with only a small amount of loot. Someone pried open the front door of Marty's Lounge, 409 North Texas, and took an undetermined amount of change from the cigarette machine.
Intruders climbed through side window of Conner Construction 1107 West Murphy, and took about $5 from a soft drink machine. Someone broke out a window at the cafeteria of Crockett Junior High School, Lee and 10th, and prowled through the kitchen. School employes reported the intruders also took some ice cream. Burglars also apparently attempted to break into West TexWhite Truck 2121 East Second, and the Lendon Smith home, 4609 Webb, but did not gain entry. Investigators said windows at both the house and the business establishment were broken out.
Firemen Extinguish Four Weekend Blazes Firemen were called to four minor alarms over the weekend. Some lint in automatic dryer overheated and spread smoke through the house of Clifton Thomas, 2808 Santa Monica. Firemen also were called to douse grass fires at 500 North Tom Green, 8300 Golder and a half-mile east of the Lawndale Addition, located north of Odessa. The Odessa (Tex) American ODESSA Published daily AMERICAN, and Sunday 222 by THE Street, Odessa, Texas 79760. Entered in the Odessa, Texas, Post Office as second class matter under Act of March 3rd, 1879.
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Two persons were injured when the motorcycle on which, they were riding went out of control at West 10th and Johnny Lane Barton, 25, Central was treated scratches, Hotel, who was operating, the on both elbows. The passenger, Clara Crain, 20, 1509 Anderson, suffered multiple scratches, cuts and In another accident which 0C- curred at East 42nd and Tom Green, Sammy Lee Shugart, 31, Route 1, suffered a cut forehead when his car, headed west on 42nd, collided with a parked car owned by Sam Kyees, 415 East Second. Police said the impact of the collision pushed the Kyees vehicle in to another parked car owned, 42nd, by and Ralph that N. car Worley, in turn 413 was forced into one owned by Lewis Wahl, 411 East 42nd. Police said all the parked cars were facingwest.
OC Students Attend Meet The Odessa College chapter of Phi Theta Kappa returned from the recent national convention in Austin, with a first runner-up award for the most active chapter in the United States. Sixty-seven national chapters were represented at the meet by more than 500 students. Officers and member from the local who traveled to the convention included Don Davis, Randall Reeves, Harold Copeland, and Leigha Dopita. Ina Mae McCollom, social science instructor at the college, is advisor to the Odessa chapter of the honorary scholarship fraternity. The group provides tutoring services for area high school and college students and also publishes a student directory at the college.
Odessa College Phi Theta Kappa members will host a state convention in the fall. Thirty-five chapters in Texas are expected to attend the event. MODERN LOF ODESSA, FLOORS PAINT INC. Now Open! Another Thriving Permian Basin Business IS OPENING A NEW LOCATION 1522 East 8th- 2-4381 MODERN FLOORS AND PAINT has been in business for the past 18 years in the Permian Basin this second store is designed to give FASTER more CONVENIENT service to our many Odessa customers. SPECIAL- ARMSTRONG QUAKER TONE 4 for 1 12 Ft.
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One twister was reported. A farmer in Gum Springs community between Longview and Marshall in East Texas telephoned Longview police that a tornado touched down there early today. There apparently was no damage. A thunderstorm with high winds hit Turnertown, five miles west of Henderson in East Texas early today. Within a couple of hours 3.5 inches of rain fell.
The wind stripped limbs from trees. In Henderson, lightning extensively damaged the roof of Tatum Brown's home. Brown is a policeman. East of Henderson, lightning set fire to the Hayward Tillison home. Tillison put the fire out himself.
Showers continued from the Pecos Valley and lower South Plains northeastward into North Central Texas after daybreak but they were mostly light. Forecasters said showers and thunderstorms will extend through Wednesday in most of the state, except in the extreme western part. Showers and storms were expected to most numerous in northern areas of the state and come in the afternoon and evening in South Central and Southwest Texas. The rough weather was set off by a Pacific cold front, which was breaking up along a line from Lufkin to San Antonio to Eagle Pass. Lightning smashed several power transformers in Longview and Tyler.
Power was out in South Tyler when lightning knocked out a transformer. "There was so much lightning that it looked almost like daytime for a minute," a Longview police dispatcher said. Almost an inch of rain fell in the Center, Tex. area in less than half hour as the storm arrived on high winds. Hail peppered Tyler and its environs and high winds littered streets with tree limbs.
An inch and a half of rain fell in Waco in less than six hours, Early morning temperatures ranged between the upper 70s in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the lower 40s in the upper Panhandle. The same cold front set off thunderstorms across much of West Texas a few hours earlier. Hail fell between Ozona and Sheffield, knocking out communalications with Sheffield. Dust filled skies in much of the South Plains and the Pecos Valley. High temperatures Monday ranged between 100 degrees at Presidio and 67 at Lubbock.
Couple Found Dead In Home SHALLOWATER, Tex. (UPI) -D. J. (Buzz) Brown, a 52- year-old insurance man, and his 51-year-old wife were beaten to death in their farm home Monday night or early today. Their 25-year-old son Jack, a student at Texas Tech in Lubbock said he returned at 3:30 a.m.
from a card with friends and found the bodies. Brown's body was lying on the floor of a bedroom. The body of Mrs. Brown was halfway on the bed, with the head hanging off. Jack Brown telephoned an uncle, Clyde (Mose) Fowler of Shallowater and told him: "Mose, something's happened out here.
I think mother and dad are dead. You'd better call and ambulance and the sheriff's office." "It looks like quite a fight," Justice of the Peace F. R. Land said. Land said Brown had had three severe blows on his head and his wife had been hit at least four times.
Lubbock County chief sheriff's deputy George Eubank said an "instrument" had been found that "possibly was used" to kill Mr. and Mrs. Brown. to one report, the "instrument" was a hammer. also denied that had been arrested.
Brown was a farmer and also operated the Brown Insurance Agency in Shallowater. He lost la race for county commissioner last year. Panel Told About High State Rental AUSTIN (UPI) Rep. Menton Murray of Harlingen told a House committee Monday night that state agencies must pay "abnormally high" rent for offices because of restrictions to two-year leases. Murray proposed a Senatepassed bill by Sen.
Charles Herring of Austin to extend to four years the time for which such a contract could be made. DEATHS Funeral Held Woman's Rites For Odessan Set Thursday APPOINTED Ralph Duane Lewis, 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lewis, 2732 Chestnut, has received appointment to the United Stat. es Coast Guard Academy at New London, Conn.
Lewis, who is to report to the AcadJune 26, is scheduled to graduate from Permian High School in May. Trade Dinner Is Scheduled The Odessa Chamber of Commerce's World Trade Dinner, originally set for April 20, has been rescheduled for May 18. The dinner will be held in conjunction with a World Trade Seminar to be conducted that day in the Lincoln Hotel. Guests for the all-day seminar include Roy Gootenberg, trade missions division of the Bureau of International Commerce, Washington, D. Stanley C.
Moore, president, Drilco Oil Tools Midland; Walter Meyer, commodity director, Texas Agricultural Marketing and Development Association, Waco; Harry Meyers, Dallas field office, U. U. Department of Commerce; and James B. Swann, assistant director, export expansion, Texas Industrial Commission, Austin. Dr.
B. Fisher Dr. S. Fisher Optometrists 411 North Grant FE 2-0616 Contact Lenses! Visual Analysis written in Birch's hand which leaves the great bulk of his estate to her. But a group of religious and charity organizations has contested that will.
They say that a will made by Birch in 1962 leaves his estate to charity. The former Pearl Choate became a nurse to Birch and his first wife, Estelle, in Pasadena, several years ago. She drove them to Texas last year, and Estelle Birch died in Breckenridge, last fall. Pearl Choate and Birch were married several days later in a car in Oklahoma. She has said that Birch signed much of his property over to her before they were married.
As the hearing began, the judge told Mrs. Birch she need not answer questions about property Birch might have held jointly, or which he might have transferred to another person. Under questioning, she said the only property of his she could speak of were the clothes Birch brought to Texas. Asked about bank accounts or real estate or other property, she said he either owned them jointly or that they weren't 1 in his name. Otis Gary, a lawyer for the contestants, asked her used.
what other names she had Bartlett told her to answer and she said: "Do you want to put me in jail, judge? You may put me in jail, your honor I've been persecuted too long!" lawyer, Edwin L. Davis, asked for a brief recess. The questioning resumed, and she again was asked about former names. She refused to answer. "You will answer the questions, Mrs.
Birch, or you will be put in jail," the judge said. "I won't answer any you can jail me now," plied. can't do it, your honor. My health won't allow it." A lawyer for the contestants said they did not want to insist that she testify in poor health, and Bartlett set a new hearing date. Grand Jurors Will Probe Boy's Death MIDLAND -A Midland County grand jury today was expected to investigate the beating death last month of a 17-year-old Danny Lee Lewis.
Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Lewis of Midland, died March 25 in Midland Memorial Hospital after he was allegedly involved in a fist fight at local drive-in restaurant about a week earlier. Detectives have made no arrests in connection with the incident, which occurred March 17, pending the grand jury investigation. Odessa To Host ABC Convention Odessa was chosen as the site the fall Regional Convention of American Business Clubs at the regional meet in Big Spring over the weekend.
L. D. (Pete) Stewart of Odessa was elected governor of District 6-A at the conclave. He is a member the Downtown Chapter of ABC and currently holds the national AMBUC award. Joe Six, also of Odessa, was presented the AMBUC award for Region 6.
The award is given for service to his community. He is a member and past presiThe fall 6 convention for American Business Clubs will be held in Odessa during the last week of October. Teachers Group Names Officers Bob Cullins, coordinator of modern languages for the Midland public schools, was elected president of the de Arena chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and in a weekend meeting at Odessa College. Also elected at the dinner meeting were Art Robinson, an instructor of German and Spanish at OC, vice president; and John King, a Kermit High School Spanish teacher, secretary. Prinda Cook, a Bowie Junior High School Spanish teacher, presented a slide program on a trip to Spain last year.
Sharon Francis, an Odessa, College Spanish student, sang two Spanish classical songs. Outgoing officers of the chapter are Laura Richards, Midland president; and Mildred Skov, Odessa, vice president. Outgoming officers of the chapter are Laura Richards, Midland, president; a and Mildred Skov, Odessa, vice president. King was re-elected secretary. COMANCHE (Staff)-Funeral services for Samuel Jackson Evans, 73-year-old Odes a were set for 2 p.m.
today in the Oak Lawn Funeral Chapel with burial in Oak wood Cemetery. Local arrangements were made by Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home. Evans died at 6 p.m. Saturday in Medical Center Hospital after a long illness. Evans, who lived at 216 Ellis in Odessa, moved to Odessa from born March Comanche 2, 1884, in 1960.
He was in Trinidad, Colo. He married the former Edna Bessie Flippo at Comanche, on Dec. 10, 1916. He was a member of the Pentecostal Church. Survivors include the widow of and a Odessa; daughter, Mrs.
Irene Vernon Gay one son, Evans, 221 Lotteman, and four grandchildren. City Woman's Funeral Slated Funeral services for Mrs. Bertha F. White, 40, 2121 North Hanco*ck, are set for 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home chapel with Rev.
A. W. Patton of the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under of Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home. Mrs.
White died at 7:05 a.m. Monday in a San Antonio hospital, where she had been confined since December. Survivors include her husband, Raymond White, and two daughters, Rosalie and Pamela Sue Campbell of the home; Mrs. Martha Andersonisters: North Bernice; Mrs. Pauline Guy of Dallas and Mrs.
Beda Larremore of Balmorhea; one brother, Otto Renz of Balmorhea, and her mother, Mrs. Rosa Renz of Balmorhea. MRS. ODENE MEEKS CRANE (Staff) Funeral services for Mrs. Odene Meeks, 49, Crane, were set for 2 p.m.
today in the chapel of the First Baptist Church with burial in Crane Cemetery under direction of Crites Funeral Home. Mrs. Meeks died Saturday night in her home. Her body was found by her son. Justice of 'the Peace Mary Teague ruled the death was due to "natural causes" after an autopsy was performed.
Survivors include her husband, Ray Meeks; the son, Ricky Ray Meeks of the home; two, daughters, Mrs. Peggy Tarpley of Crane, and Mrs. Diana Ray Swartz of Kermit; her mother, five sisters, two brothers and eight grandchildren. MRS. JEWELL STEELE FORT STOCKTON (Staff) Mrs.
Jewell Steele, 53, Fort Stockton resident for 24 years, died early Tuesday in Pecos Memorial Hospital after lengthy, illness. arrangements are pending at Owen Funeral Home. Mrs. Steele was born Sept. 3, 1913, at Heber Springs, Ark.
Survivors include her husband, Dover; one daughter, Mrs. Mary Lois Ten Eyck of Dryden; two brothers, Bill Slaten of Fort Stockton, and John Slaten of Washington; one sister, Mrs. Gladys Bailey of Carlsbad N. and four grandchildren. MRS.
CELIA K. HARDEN MIDLAND (Staff) Funeral services for Mrs. Celia Kribbs Harden, 67, Midland, were set for 2 p.m. today in the First Presbyterian Church here with burial in Worland Wyo. Local arrangements were made by Newnie Funeral Home.
Mrs. Hardens died Saturday in Dallas. She was born Sept. 1, 1899, in Indianapolis, and married Chester M. Harden on May 10, 1919.
Her husband is a partner in the Production Co. here. Other survivors include a son, Val J. Harden of Gillette, two daughters, Mrs. John E.
Johnson of Casper, and Mrs. William L. Huniston of Molalla, three sisters, Mrs. L. Dale Havely of Fulton, Mrs.
J. V. Dillingham of Florissant, and Mrs. L. 0.
Parker of Tulsa, two brothers, George E. Kribbs of Midland, and John Kribbs of Tulsa; eight grandchildren and one great grandchild. The family requests that ALS BE MADE TO THE memorials be made to the Wadley Research Institute at Dallas. Suspect's Bond Set After Disturbance A 30 year old man charged with assault with a prohibited weapon was in Ector County jail Monday morning in lieu of a $3,000 bond set by Justice of the Peace T. B.
Wedgeworth. The suspect, Melvin Riggins, no address listed, is accused of discharging a .25 caliber pistol during a fracas which occurred in the 300 block of South Tom Green last June. Funeral services for Mrs. Virgie Barnett, 52, 1001 West Adams will be conducted at 2:30 Thursday in the United Pentecostal Church with burial in Sunset Memorial Gardens under direction of Hubbard-kelly Funeral Home. Mrs.
Barnett died Sunday morning in Medical Center Hospital after a three-day ilIness. Survivors include two sons, Dallas of Rockford, and Leon Barnett of Roff, two daughters, Mrs. Littlejohn, 2735 North Alleghaney, and Mrs. Juanita Kamp, 1530 East 42nd; two step daughters, Mrs. W.
O. Caudle, 4911 East County Road, and Mrs. Deloris Shook of Wichita Falls; one brother; three sisters; 23 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. City Soldier's Services Held EAGLE PASS (Staff) Funeral mass for Pfc. Rogelio Saucedo, 21-year-old Odessa serviceman, were held at 9 a.m.
Monday in Eagle Pass with burial in the Catholic Cemetery here. Saucedo died April 8 in Vietnam of injuries he suffered in a freak mishap. He was standing on an embankment when it caved in, causing him to fall and strike his head on a military vehicle. He died at 11:15 a.m. April 8.
Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Librado Saucedo, 206 Hickory; four brothers, Raul Saucedo, stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls; Daniel, Oscar and Ernest Saucedo, all of the home, and three sisters, Ismelda, Norma and Graciela Saucedo, all of the home. Funeral Set For Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs. Eloise Dunnum, 40, 203 South Hanco*ck, are set for 2 p.m.
Wednesday in Cummings Funeral "Home Chapel with burial in Odessa Cemetery. Mrs. Dunnum died Friday night in Medical Center Hospital after a short illness. Survivors include her husband, Isiah Dunnum of Huntsville; a niece, Shelenea Jones, 203 South Hanco*ck; her mother, Mrs. Maria Williams of Sanger, and a grandmothers, Mrs.
Ancelader Thomas of Sanger. JAMES ARVIL BURNS KERMIT (Staff)-Funeral services for James Arvil Burns, 54, Kermit, are planned for 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Grace Temple Baptist Church with Rev. L. R.
Gentry, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Kermit Cemetery under direcItion of Cooper Funeral Home. Burns died at 11:30 a.m. Monday in a Comanche hospital, where he had been admitted after suffering a heart attack two weeks ago. He was born June 8, 1912, in Red River County.
Burns had lived in Kermit 19 years and was a pumper for "Perry R. Bass. He was a member of Grace Temple Baptist Church. He married the former Stella Francies Thrift at Golden, on Oct. 28, 1934.
Survivors include the two sons, James C. Burns of Kermit, and Ewell J. Burns of Odessa; his mother, Mrs. J. J.
Burns of Cooper; one brother, Ribble L. Evans of Grand Prairie; three sisters, Mrs. Gertrude Watkins of Broken Bow, Mrs. Mary Jones of Cooper, and Mrs. Mildred Schatzley of Martinsville, and seven grandchildren.
WILLIAM D. SHEEN LUBBOCK (Staff) William D. Sheen, 70, Lubbock, died at 4:45 p.m. Monday shortly after being admitted to West Texas Hospital here. Funeral services are pending at Scott Funeral Home in Saint Jo.
Local arrangements were under the direction of Sanders Funeral Home. Among survivors are two daughters, Mrs. B. P. Gardenhire of Odessa, and Mrs.
B. R. Boyd of Midland. DAVID S. CATE SAN ANGELO (Staff) Funeral services for David S.
Cate, 50, San Angelo, were set for 2 p.m. today in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens. Cate was dead on arrival at a local hospital at 12:10 p.m. Sunday after apparently suffering a heart attack. Among survivors is a step-son, Gene Sherrod of Odessa.
Alcoholism Leads Over LSD, Narcotics LOS ANGELES (AP) Use of LSD and narcotics is much less a national problem than alcoholism, two psychiatrists told the California Medical Association. Dr. "The hippies have a saying," Keith Ditman of UCLA said Mondap. "With dope, there's hope, but with booze you.
