day is while to over the by the called a is a a 1 THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS Abilene, Texas, Sunday Morning, January 23, 1966 AND THE BAND PLAYED ON Musicians of the U.S. 3rd Marine Division Band play follow-the-leader to the waving baton of 14-year-old Trinh Huu Pham during a recent concert the Marines gave for some 300 villagers at Cam No, South Viet Nam. The Marine Band was in the tiny village to provide to an afternoon of political a musical program speeches, including one by the newly appointed village chief. (AP Wirehpoto) SUICIDE CLAIMED Russians Promise Autopsy On Body of Dead American By HENRY S. BRADSHER MOSCOW (AP) -The Russians promised Saturday to perform an autopsy on the body of Newcomb Mott and said an American official could be present during the post-mortem examination in Moscow Monday.
the U.S. Embassy announced. The promise came after U.S. Ambassador Foy D. Kohler went the Foreign Ministry with a demand from Washington for a full investigation into Mott's death.
The Russians claim Mott slashed his throat in the washroom of a prison train taking him to a labor camp during the night of Thursday-Fri- day. He was serving an 18- month term on a charge of illegally entering the Soviet Union. Kohler, in his talk with First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Gem-Wise Jeweiry fashions, facts, fictions by Frank Fite Member American Gem Society DIAMONDS MEAN LOVE This year marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of diamonds in South Africa. While diamonds had been known for many centuries before, this was the first time the precious gem became available in commercial quantities. When it first become the gemstone of love and romance is unknown for the diamond goes far back into antiquity.
Ancient Romans it the "gem of reconciliation" between estranged lovers. Engagement and wedding rings alto easily go bock four thousand years or more. The first record of a diamond engagement ring the one given to Mary of Burgundy by Archduke Maximillian of Austria in 1477. Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth 11 both cherished the diamond rings given them by their betrothed, even though they had larger diamonds in the royal treasury. And up until the diamond discovery in 1866, it was largely the royalty who could celebrate love with a diamond gift.
adays, of engaged girls in America receive a diamond as an engagement ring according to the Jewelry Industry Council. Modern girls can choose a diemond engagement ring on the basis of what suits their fingers best taking into consideration the style of mounting and the shape of the stone. Usually, large hand will find a good sized emerald-cut diamond more flatter ing small hand in COmplimented marquise or "boat shaped" diamond. The trend to. to simple designs.
We will be happy to show you our selection. Busch 250 CYPRESS Jewelers 250 CYPRESS Breck Area Native Dies BRECKENRIDGE (RNS), Robert Irvin Scarlett, 82, a native of Stephens County, died at 1:35 a.m. Saturday in Stephens Memorial Hospital where he had been a patient since Dec. 31. Funeral will be held at 2 p.m.
Sunday 1 in Chapel of Memories with the Rev. John A. Lightfoot, pastor of St. Paul Methodist Church, and Don Melton, First Christian Church elder, officiating. Burial will be in Gunsight Cemetery with Melton Funeral Home directing.
Born Oct. 24, 1883 in Stephens County, Mr. Scarlett had farmed all his adult life in Gunsight community. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. C.
B. Baker of Longview, and a brother, E. H. Scarlett of Breckenridge. Nephews will be pallbearers.
Mrs. Bales Rites Scheduled Monday BRECKENRIDGE (RNS) Funeral for Mrs. Lillie Bales, 87, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Chapel of Grace with the Rev. Andy Anderson, pastor of Rose Ave.
Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Breckenridge Cemetery with Satterwhite Funeral Home in charge. Mrs. Bales died at 4:35 p.m. Friday in Sunnydale Rest Home.
She was born Sept. 17, 1878 in Fannin County, daughter of a pioneer Stephens County family. She had lived in Stephens County off and on most of her life and returned here permanently 17 years ago. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. George W.
Sanders of Breckenridge, Mrs. Don Smith of Euless, Mrs. Stanley Fendrich of Moore, Mrs. Oran Jeter of California; four sisters, Mrs. Ethel Lindsey of Kilgore, Mrs.
Jeanette Thompson of Van Zans, Mrs. Nancy Echols of Big Spring, Mrs. Sam Zinemon of Carnegie, a brother, Tom Schoolcraft of Eakley, 12 grandchildren and 31 greatgrandchildren. Mrs. Fulmer, 80, Big Spring, Dies BIG SPRING (RNS) Mrs.
Sallie J. Fulmer, 80, died at 10:40 p.m. Friday in a local hospital. Funeral will be held at 11:30 a.m. Monday at NalleyPickle Rosewood Chapel with burial at Crane cemetery.
She was born Aug. 23, 1885 in Nacogdoches, Tex. She lived in Crane until her husband. D. C.
Fulmer, died in 1945. She then moved to Midland where she made her home until 1961, after which she moved to Big Spring to live with her daughter, Mrs. Jack Boyd. She was a member of the Methodist church. She had been in ill health for several years.
Survivors include one son, L. N. Fulmer of Big Spring; three daughters, Mrs. Jack Boyd of Big Spring, Mrs. Don Tyner of Lubbock and Mrs.
Joe Bentz of San Diego, nine grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Irwin Jackson and Mrs. W. W. Weikel, both of Houston.
Rites in Coleman For Mrs. Valera COLEMAN (RNS) Funeral for Mrs. George McQueen, 66, of Valera will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in Stephens Funeral Home Chapel in Coleman. Burial will be in Talpa Cemetery.
The Rev. Paul Smith, pastor of Concho Baptist Church in Coleman, will officiate. Mrs. McQueen died Friday in Sweetwater's Simmons Memori- Jimmy L. Click Funeral Monday Funeral will be held at 10:30 a.m.
Monday in the Southern Hills Church of Christ for Jimmy Lee Chick, 38, milk route driver in Brownwood. Burial will be in Elmwood Memorial Park under direction of North's Funeral Home. Clem Thurman, minister at Southern Hills, will officiate. He will be assisted by Larry McKinzie. Pallbearers will be Bill Mosley, Kenneth Carpenter, Nathan Smith, Buford Smith, Floyd Hensleee, Hershel Sewalt.
Survivors include his wife, the former June Rex; a son, John; two daughters, Janet and Jonell; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Chick of Bangs; four brothers, W.
W. of Brownwood, Truman of Bangs, J. B. of Lamesa, and Hubert of Great Falls, four sisters, Mrs. Bob Bearden of Midland, Mrs.
Stanley Mulsow of Kermit, Mrs. Homer Reeder of California, and Mrs. Minnie Hamilton of Colorado City. W. H.
Sneed Rites Set for Monday BIG SPRING (RNS) Funeral for W. H. (Henry) Sneed. 84, who died in a Seminole rest home at noon Friday after a year's illness, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday from RiverWelch Funeral Chapel here.
The Rev. Billy Rudd, pastor of East 4th Street Baptist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in City Cemetery. Mr. Sneed moved to Howard County in 1922 from Talco and farmed here until his retirement in 1956.
Zeddie M. Long, Big Spring, Dies BIG SPRING (RNS) Zeddie M. Long, 50, died at 2:15 p.m. Friday in a local hospital of an apparent heart attack. Funeral will be at 3 p.m.
Monday at the Nalley Pickle Rosewood Chapel with burial in City Cemetery. Born March 27, 1915 in Cove, Arkansas, he came to Big Spring in 1942. At the time of his death he was general superintendent for R. G. Farrell Co.
of Odessa. He was a member of the 14th Main Church of Christ, Rebekah Lodge No. 153 and John Kwee Oddfellow Lodge. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lucile Long; one son, Benny of Boulder, two daughters, Mrs.
Lanna Gilbert of Big Spring, Mrs. Etta White of Willow, his mother, Mrs. Mary Ella Grant of Big Spring; his father, Clyde Long of Salinas, two brothers, Henry of Caditola, Oddis of San Diego, one sister, Mrs. Euna Lee Bethell of Big Spring and three grandchildren. W.
R. Kelley, 81, Throckmorton, Dies not disclosed. al Hospital. I Clairemont. GANGWAY! Jim Walsh, a film producer from New York, takes off in the general direction of Madison Avenue, encouraged by a 500-pound bear who didn't know he was supposed to be tame.
The bear from Florida no less soon was restrained by owners. Welsh was making a film of the snowstorm when bruin started scampering around. (AP Wirephoto) meeting after his sentencing that he had been treated kindly in the Murmansk jail. But, he said, he was apprehensive about the unknown future of another prison. He apparently was on his way from Murmansk, from where he had written a normal-sounding letter to the embassy on Jan.
2, to a labor camp when he died. The location of the camp was W. M. Davis Dies at 77 BIG SPRING (RNS) Walter McClain Davis, 77, died lat 1:15 p.m. Saturday following a heart attack.
He was dead on arrival at a local hospital. Funeral will be held at 4 p.m. Monday in Nalley Pickle Rosewood Chapel with the Rev. Paris Barton, pastor of West Side Baptist Church, officiating. The Rev.
Robert F. Poik, pastor of the First Baptist Church, will assist. Burial will be in Salem Cemetery. Mr. Davis was born April 1888 in Yellow Bush, and married Vina Mae Hull Jan.
27. come 1907 to in Sweetwater. i in 1901 He had Big Spring from Mississippi. Moving to Abilene in 1921, Mr. Davis attended Simmons three years.
He was by Hardin-Simmons University until 1942 at which time he returned to Big Spring. He was associated with his son-in-law, Relerce Jones, in a service station until his retirement in 1964. Mr. Davis was a Baptist. Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Mrs.
Relerce Jones of Big Spring, Mrs. Lydia Warren Big Spring; a son, James W. of San Bernardino, two granddaughters, four greatgrandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Ed Hull of Big Spring, Mrs. Roscoe Buchanan of Big Spring.
Pallbearers will be J. C. Robinson, Ross Darrow Woodrow Robinson, J. L. Davis, Leo Hull, I.
L. Reddell, Lloyd Wolf, Tommy Shirley. George Jeffrey Succumbs at 84 BIG SPRING (RNS) George W. Jeffrey, 84, died at 6:45 p.m. Saturday in the Bennett House.
The body will lie in state in Nalley-Pickle Funeral Home until Monday. Arrangements will be announced. Survivors his wife, Lena of Big Spring; care daughter, Mrs. Ralph S. Thomas of San Angelo; a stepson, Vaden Gallacher of Bakersfield, four sisters, Mrs.
Ollie Logan of Sweetwater, Mrs. Annie Whitley of Bangs, Mrs. Alice Knight of Arizona and Mrs. Julie Knight of California. John Honeycutt Rites in Albany ALBANY (RNS) Funeral for John C.
Honeycutt, about 80, who died I in El Paso Thursday night, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday from First Presbyterian Church here with the Rev. George Walker, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Albany Cemetery under direction of Godfrey Funeral Home. Services for the former Albany resident were also held at 2 p.m.
Saturday at El Paso. The body was to be transferred to Albany Sunday. Survivors are his wife, Kathrine, and a brother, N. both of El Paso. Charlie Meals, 62, Dies in Hospital Charlie Meals, 62, of 820 Cottonwood, died in Hendrick Me-1 -morial Hospital at 1:45 a.m.
Friday after a sudden illness. Funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Monday from Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, N. 8th and Treadaway with the Rev.
R. D. Burks, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery under direction of CurtisStarks Funeral Home. Born Feb.
21, 1903, at Detroit, he moved to Abilene in late 1963. He was a member of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church. He was a laborer. Surviving are his wife, Pearly Mae of the home, and one uncle, Manch Meals of Detroit, Tex.
Former Abilenian Dies in Lubbock LUBBOCK Ollie N. Smith, 79. former resident of Abilene, died at 6:15 a.m. Saturday in a Lubbock convalescent home, where he had been a patient since March, 1965. Funeral will be held at 3 p.m.
Sunday at the Trent Methodist Church with the Rev. Marvin Fisher, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Rotan, officiating. Burial will be in Garden of Memories Cemetery at Trent under direction of FranklinBartley Funeral Home of Lubbock. Born March 8, 1886, in Coleman County, he moved to Trent with his parents young boy. He lived in Oakland, for about 20 years, then returned to Abilene in 1962.
A retired electrician, he lived in the Windsor Hotel in Abilene. Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Tom Williamson of Lubbock and Mrs. Anna Belle Zander of San Antonio; three brothers, W. E.
of Abilene; H. N. of Clyde and C. C. of Denton; several nieces and nephews.
R. P. Huffman Succumbs at 60 BIG SPRING (RNS) Ransom Porter Huffman, 60, died at 11:10 p.m. Friday in a local hospital. Funeral at 2 p.m.
Monday at the Nalley Pickle Rosewood Chapel with burial in City Cemetery. Born June 14, 1905 in De Leon, he married Julia E. Soape April 14, 1934 in Big Spring. He moved to Big Spring in 1933. He was a member of the Baptist church.
He owned and operlated Porter's Cafe at the time of his death. Prior to this he was associated with various West Texas oil well companies as a driller. Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Wanda June Arnold and Mrs. Opal B.
Brooks, both of Big Spring; one granddaughter; two brothers, Coleman of Clarendon and George of Post; two sisters, Mrs. Emily Yates and Mrs. Olie Wilson, both of Gorman. W. E.
Wafer Dies at 74 In S'water SWEETWATER (RNS) William E. Wafer, 74, retired automobile dealer and resident of Sweetwater for 52 years, died Saturday at 3:30 a.m. after a short illness at Simmons Memorial Hospital. Funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Patterson Chapel of Memories with the Rev.
Richard Tarr, pastor of First Christian Church, officiating. Burial will be in Sweetwater Cemetery. Mr. Wafer was born April 22, 1891 in Corsicana and was married in Hubbard City in 1913 to Ethel Emmons. Survivors include his wife; a son, Odis of Sweetwater; a daughter Clarine Jones of Seminole; three sisters, Mrs.
Amelia Boozer, Mrs. Violet Wright, both of San Antonio and Mrs. Maude Bagwell of Greenville, and three grandchildren. E. E.
Ware Rites Slated Here Today V. Kuznetsov, said Mott, 27, died "under circ*mstances not yet clear." A U.S. spokesman said later this meant the United States was reserving judgment non whether Mott actually had committed suicide. Mother's Comments In Sheffield. Mott's mother, Mrs.
Howard Mott, told reporters, "I think the Russians killed Details of the death, including the instrument used, were not yet available. The Soviet government promised to help in the investigation. It is bringing Mott's body here by overnight train from Korov, Rule Rancher Dies at 62 RULE (RNS) Charlie Allen Jackson died at 11:30 a.m. Saturday on his 62nd birth-1 day in Haskell County Hospital. He had been hospitalized there for eight days.
Funeral will be held a at 3 p.m. Monday in the First Baptist Church here with the Rev. Mike Herrington, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Rule with Pinkard Funeral Home in charge. Mr.
Jackson was born Jan. 22. 1904 in Alma. He moved to Stamford when three years old, then to Rule two years later. The prominent rancher had resided here since.
He married Oleta Furgerson in 1924. Surviving are his wife; father, B. L. Jackson of Weath-4. erford; a sister, Josie Lee Thomas of Weatherford.
Rochester Rites For Mrs. Pritchett ROCHESTER (RNS) Funeral for Ann Lee Pritchett, 90, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Church of Christ with Abe Martin, minister, officiating. Burial will be in Spring Creek Cemetery at Avoca under direcItion of Smith Funeral Home. Grandchildren will be pallbearers.
Mrs. Pritchett died in Haskell's Rice Springs Care Home at 11 a.m. Thursday following a long illness. Rites in Merkel For Mrs. Compton MERKEL (RNS) Funeral for Mrs.
Mamie Compton, 84, will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday in Starbuck Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Jesse Swindell, Noodle Baptist pastor, officiating. Assisting will be Ross Merritt. layman of the Compere Baptist Church.
Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery here. The longtime Jones and Taylor county resident died at 3:30 p.m. Friday in Shady Oaks Nursing Home. Mrs. had resided there the past year.
a city 500 miles northeast of Moscow on the Trans-Siberian Railway. "A medical examination including autopsy, as required under Soviet law," will be performed here Monday with the American embassy represented, the U.S. Embassy quoted Kuznetsov as saying. It appeared likely the embassy doctor, Air Force Capt. James W.
Bizzel, would represent the U.S. government at the post mortem. Sought Appointment Kohler had asked for an ap1 pointment with Foreign Minister Adnrei A. Gromyko or Kuznetsov to read a statement from Washington. tragic result could have been avoided had the Soviet government seen fit to heed the numerous approaches, both formal and informal, made in the interests of securing mercy and clemency for this unfortunate young man," the U.S statement said.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk had discussed the case with Gromyko last fall. Kohler discussed it with President Nikolai V. Podgorny last month. Appeals had been sent by both Massachusetts senators and many others. Mott, a 6-foot-5 representative of a book publishing house, was a tourist in Scandinavia when he crossed the Soviet Arctic border from Norway at an un-1 guarded point on Sept.
4. He said at his trial that he was "hot, tired and lost" and regretted having crossed the border without thinking. Sentenced Nov. 24 He was sentenced to 18 months on Nov. 24 in Murmansk.
That would have made him eligible for parole on June when half the time was Mott told his parents in a Funeral for Ezra Elmer Ware, 81, former Abilene resident, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in Elliott's Chapel of Memories with Rev. Ray Ash of Lawn Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be in Midway Cemetery, Mr. Ware died Thursday in a Corpus Christi hospital.
Survivors include his wife, Addie of the home in Ingleside; four sons, Elmer of Sacramento, Raymond of Arling. aton, Ben of Waco and Clifford of Columbus; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Eichelberger of Dallas and Mrs. Wadine Fulwiler of Temple; four brothers, B. B.
of Abilene, Loyd of Houston, R. W. of Joshua and Pen of Hamilton; six sisters, Mrs. Ona Anderson of Abilene, Mrs. J.
C. Farmer of Joshua, Mrs. Verna Eck of Ogden, Utah, Mrs. Reba Baker of Owensboro, Kentucky, Mrs. John Steakley, Miss Bessie Ware, both of Cleburne; 10 grandchildren; and 10 greatgrandchildren.
Mrs. Phillips, 83, Dies in Fort Worth Mrs. Amelia A. Phillips, 83, 6008 Eastland Fort Worth, died at 10:15 a.m. Saturday in St.
Joseph's Hospital in Fort Worth. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Elliott's Funeral Home in Abilene. She was born June 14, 1882, in Comanche City. She moved to Abilene 55 years ago before moving to Fort Worth two years ago where she made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Paul J.
Taylor. She was a member of the Baptist church. Survivors include one son, C. R. Walthall of Brimington, two daughters, Mrs.
L. Taylor of Fort Worth and Mrs. A. Sutton of Abilene, 1541 N. 20th; 17 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren.
THROCKMORTON (RNS) W. R. Kelley, 77, died at his home late Friday afternoon of an apparent heart attack. Funeral will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at Crestview Baptist Church with Rev.
Curtis Brown officiating. He will be assisted by Will Scott, Church of Christ minister of Throckmorton. Burial will be in Throckmorton Cemetery. Mr. Kelley was born October 24, 1888 in Alabama.
He was a member of the Crestview Baptist Church. He married Mae Crawford Nov. 22, 1965. Survivors include his wife and two sons by a previous marriage; W. R.
of Sweetwater, Clarence of Springer, N. four daughters: Mrs. Willy Harrington, Mrs. Jesse Ellard, Mrs. Billy Shankles, all of Throckmorton, and Mrs.
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