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Chamber of
public anytime he removed the jury indictment and detailed in testimony
Police hunt robbery suspect
California firefighters battle blazes
Man gets prison term for car theft
Mazda from an Argyle home July 20
Area deaths
No serious injuries in bus w reck
Moody Moeller Jan."1, Welch, both of Sher
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SPAN will mark birthday with party
Metroguide
and Natalie Arthur of
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TV show focuses on housing for poor
With thanks
Authority Carter will and Pamela Buchek of
$2995
the development of the Denton League of
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CORRECTION FOR
SHERMAN'S SHOES:
Pool Problems!
FREE WATER ANALYSIS
1701 Broadway
Denton, Texas 76201
orologists, who work full-time on fire
weather predictions, are forecasting
a gradual increase in sea breezes
that could bring down temperatures _
to the lower 80s in the Los Angeles
basin by the weekend and provide
relief from low inland humidity
TO
PLACE
YOUR AD
CALL
387-3811
Denton Deals parking lot on Collier
Street.__
Kenneth Hahn, chairman of the
Los Angeles County Board of
Supervisors, saying "one more fire
and we're in big trouble," declared
his county a disaster area Wed-
nesday
Lw- and moderate-
cost housing for the poor
and the elderly poor will
be discussed on "Voters
Digest" Saturday at
12:30p.m. on KTVT-TV,
Channel 11
Jim Carter, director
of the Denton Housing
Authority, will discuss
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A jury in Judge W.C. Boyd's 16th
District Court has found Jean Paul
Guthehe. 20, guilty of unauthorized
use of a motor vehicle and assessed
the defendant a seven-year sentence
in the Texas Department of Correc-
tions
Gutherie was accused of stealing a
on his own sound discretion and
judgment "
When court opened Wednesday
morning, however, Fisher sent the
jury out while he heard more final
motions by attorneys, but made no
move to have the press and spectators
ushered out
Defendants who will be in the dock
today to hear Assistant U.S Attorney
David Baugh urge their convictions
and an array of defense attorneys
argue for freedom will be
. Martin Marion Sneed Sr. of Orange:
John Ruppel, who has been described
as a "reclusive millionaire" from
Paul Ephraim serves as chairman
of the SPAN executive committee
Other members include Bessie
Harden. Elinor Hughes. Rosabl
Mizell, James Mueller, Elinor Pan-
coast and Douglas Wuenschel.
First director of SPAN was Ralph
Leach, now a faculty member at the
North Texas State University Center
for Studies in Aging He was suc-
ceeded by Roberta Donsbach, present
director.
for visitation
Gracie V. Kelley
LEWISVILLE
Funeral services for
Gracie Viola Kelley.
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from the courtroom
Fisher's law clerk, Glenn Stover,
said Wednesday morning the judge's
orders are designed to keep any
reports of inadmissible evidence from
the jury The jury has not been
sequestered, but has been repeadedly
advised not to read or watch news
accounts of-the trial.
Asked if the judge’s orders were
based on a recent Supreme Court
ruling which allowed exclusion of the
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White says he'll sue SEDCO, Pemex
Announces
Removol of his office
on October l, J 979
To
Adkisson of Fort Worth who died Tuesday at a
Richardson hospital.
Last week, a jury in Judge Bob
Scofield's 158th District Court con-
victed Gutherie'sco defendant. Frank
Edward Nesdale Jr., of the same
offense, and sentenced him to six
years in the TDC
being an accomplice in the April 11
burglary of the Skillern’s drug store
on Avenue C.
The jury was scheduled to begin
deliberations in the punishment phase
of the trial this morning, after hearing
testimony and closing arguments.
—WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP> -
An Air Force charter bus skidded off
a rain-slick highway and overturned
near here Wednesday injuring 15
airmen, none of them seriously
A second bus, also loaded with
airmen bound for Sheppard Air
Force Base, left the road to avoid a
by witnesses include:
— A shipment of 35,000 pounds of
marijuana aboard the "Monkey,"
which was landed in Orange June 1.
1977
—Two voyages by the "Jubilee,"
one which unloaded 37,000 pounds of
marijuana at High Island Jan 27.
1978. and another which brought in
30,000 pounds of marijuana April 4.
1978. also to High Island
—One trip by the "Bayou Blue."
He ldon fs
Saddle Shop
. 345 E. Hickory
Denton, Tx.
Denton police were looking for a
suspect this morning in connection
with the robbery of Johnny's Oak
Street Exxon service station
According to police. the station was
robbed of an undetermined amount of
money around 9:30 a in by a man
armed with a silver or chrome 22- or
32-caliber revolver. There were no
The injured airmen were admitted
to Sheppard Air Force Base
Regional Hospital for observation.
"There were a lot of people cut up
badly Every way you looked you
could see people bleeding," said
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Telephone: Area 817-387-3811
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A woman reported to police Wed-
nesday that she was swindled out of
$600 by a man and woman who agreed
to roof her home.
The complainant told police the
man and woman agreed to roof her
house in the 500 block of Fulton Street
June 16, when she gave them a check
for $600 to purchase .materials The
man and woman were to have begun
work on the roof June 18. the com-
plainant said, but she has heard
nothing further from the pair, and no
work has been done
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had changed their pleas to "guilty."
but the documents were sealed and no
one would say what plea bargains had
been made
Wednesday morning. Fisher ad
vised jurors that four defendants were
absent — Gerdes, Culber, Donald
Sneeds nd Ronald Spencer Ray — and
disposition of their cases would now
be up to the court, not-the jury:
Indications are that charges against
Sneed and Ray have been dismissed,
although there is no official con-
firmation.
The fates of those removed from the
jury trial will not be announced until
after the jury determines the guilt or
innocence of the remaining defen
dants, officials have said, continuing a
super-secret atmosphere that has
permeated the trial
Adding to that atmosphere has been
Fisher's seemingly routine practice of
excluding the news media and the
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An undetermined quantity of
luggage was reported stolen to police
from two trailers parked on the’
pressed an int
the city
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executive vic
chamber
man. one sister, Willie
Mae Miller of Sherman,
two grandchildren and
one greatgrandchild
The family will be at
the funeral home from 7
Jury convicts man in burglary trial
County to answer lawsuit
Denton County
Although SPAN is a private agency
unique -to- Denton County,, it was
chosen as the grantee of funds for
operating a hot meal program for
senior citizens by the Governor's
Committee on Aging Meals are
served by SPAN at the Denton Senior
Center, Heritage Oaks, Lewisville
Senior Center and Pilot Point Senior
Center
SEDCO — the drilling company
founded by Gov Bill Clements —
and Pemex. the national Mexican oil
firm. as a result of the offshore oil
spill that soiled Texas beaches
White also said he would sue one of
Pemex’s contractors. Permargo:
White said in an interview taped
for showing Sunday that he will try
Dollar hits new lows in Europe
LONDON <AP) — The dollar Dealers said further uncertainty
spiraled downward on European about the U.S. economy, inflation
also discuss plans to
rehabilitate some exist-
ing housing for other
residents of the city who
are no longer able to
cope with rising housing
costs without some
assistance.
Linnie McAdams of
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said
The trailers were apparently
broken into between 6 pm Tuesday
and 8 a m Wednesday.
Of the 15.
were intere
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Women Voters will
moderate the program
money markets today as some
dealers predicted a renewed crisis of
confidence in the U S currency
Gold soared to another record of $380
at London’s five major bullion firms,
-a jump of $10 from Wednesday’s
close in both London and Zurich
The dollar hit 11-month lows in
Milan and Frankfurt and was lower
in Tkyo.
"The dollar is in trouble again,
and it seems the rising interest rates
have not been sufficient to prop it
up," a Tokyo trader said
“When the Federal Reserve Board
let the dollar slip against European
currencies Wednesday people
became worried about having too
many greenbacks on hand "
Sherman’s Shops
is not having a
dancewear sale, but
does have a variety,
of dancewear for
sale.
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Gatlinburg. Tenn . Raymond Eugene
Hawkids of-Cherokee Ranch in Denton
County: James Louis Holland of
Newport, Tenn , described-by defense
attorneys as having a close
relationship with Ruppel. who was a
"surrogate father" to Holland;
Martin Marion Sneed Jr and Clyde E
Sneed, both oF Orange; Bryant
O’Neal, whom witnesses have des
cribed as a captain of one of-the boats
allegedly used to smuggle marijuana
into Texas; Clifford J Swiere,
charged as a crew number.; Beth C *
Anderson, also known as Beth C.
Holland; and Harry Hannon of
Florida.
The defendants are charged with
conspiring.to smuggle five shipments
of marijuana from near Santa Marta.
Colombia, into the United States in a
pattern of racketeering activity and to
possess and distribute the contraband
in the United States
Shipments itemized in the federal
MARIN G RAMLY JRRtuw KINGil
More than $1,400 in appliances were
reported stplen to Denton police
Wednesday from an apartment
complex construction site
The appliances were discovered
missing from a locked apartment in
the complex at Westminister and
Londonderry around noon Wed-
nesday, and were last seen in the
apartment around 5:30p.m. Tuesday.
The apartment showed no signs of
forced entry
Included among the missing items
were 24 garbage disposals valued at
$696. two dishwashers valued at $400
and one refrigerator valued at $325
press in some instances in pre-trial which unloaded 35.000 pounds of
hearings, Stover Said, “No, it is based marijuana at Orange May 2, 1978
—A trip by the “’Agnes Pauline."
with 40,000 pounds of marijuana which
was being unloaded at a commercial
dock in Port Arthur, Drug Enfor-
cement Administration agents and
other officers were waiting on the
ship, arrested those unloading the
illicit cargo, and confiscated both boat
and cargo"
From the unloading sites, the bales
of marijuana, which averaged 40 to 70
pounds each, according to Butler's
testimony, were trucked to Texas
ranches owned by Rex. Cauble for
weighing and further- distribution to
Tennessee, Missouri and other areas.
A 20,000-acre fire singed the city
limits of Ventura as hundreds of
firefighters battling hot weather and
erratic winds struggled to quell at
least 16 blazes consuming 90,000
acres of California brush and tim
ber .
Since Saturday. at leasl 50 homes
have been destroyed or damaged by
the fires, which have been fanned by
hot weather and erratic winds,
running up damage and firefighting
costs into the millions of dollars
However. state fire mete-
operation and negligently main-
tained equipment."
He said he would probably wait to
file suit until after President Carter
and Mexican President Jose Lopez
Portillo meet in Washington Sept 28-
29
White was interviewed for
“Capitol Eye."
acquitted of the public
intoxication charge
The petition main-
tains that Davis’ arrest
was “unfounded” and
“without probable
cause," and as such a
violation of his con-
stitutional rights to
Heritage Oaks.
Heritage Oaks is a
community of older
individuals living tn
brick fourplexes built by
the Denton Housing
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General Mark White says he will sue called "mismanagement, negligent
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1824. in Miles. She was a
member of the Denton
Baptist Temple and was
a homemaker
Survivors include her
husbad. Moody
Moeller of Argyle; three
sons, Lee 0 Moeller of
Bedford, Dan Moeller of
Herndon, Va., and
Johnny Moeller of
Lewisville; two
daughters. Aldera
—“Voters Digest” is
produced weekly by the
Leagues of Women
Voters of Dallas.
Denton, Garland,
Irving. Richardson and
Tarrant County and is
presented as a public
service by Channel 11
To all who extended their
sympathy both in words
and floral tributes during
the bereavement, we offer
dur rho^t hearWeit thanks
Mrs Jack Franklin
and family
To the many kind friends,
to the church and its
members who understood
so well, and our neighbors
we wish to extend our
sincere Thanks and heart
felt appreciation for the.
comfort and many kind
messages of sympathy and
all offerings during our
bereavement in the passing
of our dearly betoved wife
and mother, Katy
Reagan Willingham
& Family
Dewey H Otley '
DECATUR - Funeral
arrangements for
Dewey H. Utley, 81, who
died Wednesday at an
Itasca nursing home,
are pending with the
Coker Funeral Home
Mr Utley is survived
by a son, Jerry Utley of
Paradise; and three
daughters
and the political climate in the
.United -States probably all con-
tributed to the slide Some said
massive and immediate support for
the dollar by the U.S. Federal
Reserve would be necessary to
prevent a further plunge
West Germany’s Bundesbank, the
country’s central monetary
authority, announced it bought up
$15 5 million to prop up the dollar
when it dropped from 1.8073 late
Wednesday to a late fixing of 1.7745
marks. It was first time the dollar
dipped below 180 marks in 11
months and was the lowest value
since shortly, before President
Carter announced a dollar support
package last Nov. 1
injuries
The man was described as being
black, around 24 years old, 5 feet 9
inches. 160 pounds, with short black
hair, a mustache and long sideburns.
He w as wearing an orange-red short-
sleeve pullover shirt and blue jeans
No vehicle description was
available at press time.
that Davis was arrested
by Buchanan for public
intoxication around 6:30
p m. Oct 16,1977, at the
lake At the time of his
arrest, Davis contends
he was talking with
three other persons who
also were arrested for
public intoxication
Although. according
to the petition, Davis
“explained" to
Buchanan that he had
had nothing to drink and
freedom of speech and
association. due process
of law and equal pro-
-lection.
The suit seeks
damages in excess of
$5,000 for humiliation
and mental anguish.
The Service Program for Aging
Needs (SPAN) will celebrate its fifth
birthday with a party featuring
balloons, ice cream cones and clowns
at the Denton Senior tenter Friday at
7 pm
Featured on the free program
beginning at 8 p m are a scene from
the musical comedy “Sweet Flower
Moundland" by Mary Webb This will
be followed by the Denton Senior
Kitchen Band directed by Sherry
Miller and the Denton Senior Center
Troubadors directed by Deanna
Perez Gil DeMello will make an
appearance as Flippo the Clown
Beginning at 9 p m , the Drifters
will play country-western music for
dancing.
Beginning w ith one van in 1974, and
only one full-time employee. SPAN
now operates a fleet of five vehicles
that provides about 2,500 trips per
month to handicapped people in
Mrs Moeller was Dorothy Davis of
born in Industry May 22. Denton; two brothers.
1902. and married Robert and Howard -
were to be held at 2 p m
Thursday at the Church
of God in Lewisville
The Rev. James Binyon
was to officiate the
services and burial was
to be at Old Hall
Cemetery, under the
direction of the Dalton
and Son Funeral Home.
Mrs Kelley was born
in Tennessee April 15.
1893, and was a
housewife
She is survived by one
da ughter, Alice
Crawford of Carrollton:
one brother, Neil
Johnson of Bushnell.
Fla ; 17 grandchildren.
31 great-grandchildren
and six great-great-
grandchildren
Denton County that he was a non-
commissioners have drinker. Buchanan
authorized District handcuffed Davis aiwi
“ Attorney Jerry Cobb to held him in- custody
file an answer to a approximately i,
federal damage, suit hours before trans-
filed against The county porting him to the
by a man who alleges county jail.
his civil rights were After posting bond
violated by sheriff's around 11 p m , the suit
deputy- George -states- Da vis went to
Buchanan. Flow hospital. where he
In his petition filed in underwent a blood
, the Sherman Division of alcohol test The results
the U.S. District Court of that test", the petition
for the Eastern District contends, "detected no
of Texas, James Alan alcohol whatsoever" in
Davis alleges his civil Davis' bloodstream,
rights were violated by Subsequently. the suit
Buchanan during an alleges. Davis appeared
incident at Lake in Precinct 3 Justice of
Lewisville the Peace Court, and
The petition states after a trial was
After deliberating until around 9
p m Wednesday, a 10-man, two-
woman jury found Theodore Temple
Beckett guilty of burglary of a
building
Beckett. 20, was accused in Judge
Bob Scofield's 158th District Court of
Duncanville; three
sisters, Angela Franke
of Okmulgee, Okla.,
Hilda Klattenhoff of
Miles and Lillie
Thompson of Dallas; 15
grandchildren and nine
great-grandchildren
Choice B. Welch
Funeral services for
Choice B Welch, 70, of
2321 Bowling Green, will
be held Friday at 2 p.m.
at the Schmitz-Floyd-
Hamlett Funeral Home
Chapel Officiating will
be the Rev Terry Land
Burial will follow at
Roselawn Memorial
Park
Mr. Welch died
Wednesday at Westgate
Hospital
He was born in Gunter
Aug 16, 1909, and
married Mary Lee
Davis April 2, 1926, in
Celina. He Was a
member of the Grace
Temple Baptist Church
and was retired from
Pargas
Survivors include his
wife, Mary Lee Welch of
Denton; his mother,
Minnie Lee Welch of
Sherman; one daughter.
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Richard Nicholson
DALLAS - .Funeral
services for Richard
Bruce Nicholson, 7,
Garland, will be held at
2:30 p.m. Friday at
Restland Memorial
Chapel The Rev David
Kittrell will conduct the
services and burial will
be at Restland
The child died
Monday in Las Cruces.
N.M.
He is survived by his
father and stepmother,
Richard Timothy
Nicholson and Kay
Nicholson of Garland;
two brothers, Douglas
and Joseph Nicholson,
both of Garland, three
sisters, Jacquelyn
Gannon of Las Cruces.
N.M . and Darla and
Dora Gannon, both of
Pawnee. Okla ; and his
grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Glen Nicholson of
Denton
Natali« E, Moeller______
Funeral arrangem-
ents are pending with
the Schmitz-Floyd-
Hamlett Funeral Home
for Natalie Emily
Moeller, 77. Who -died
Wednesday at
Grapevine Memorial
Hospital
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