Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 96, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 22, 1978 Page: 2 of 32
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—Wednesday, November 22.1978
THE DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
staff photo
Recovered plane
Council approves officials liability insurance
Stock market
wife, Jo D. Pound, his survived by her brother.
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Gordon E. Womack charge
of
Phone
387-3811
markdown and commissions’
For A
“Fast Action"
- Classified
Raymond Slinker of
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sister, Mrs. Al Gelhar of
1 RAMEY. KING & MINNIS
INSURANCE
All domestic cars and small trucks
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Chester Meaders of Fort
IRVICE
Burial will be at
member
Methodist Church and
survived by four sisters.
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Peace justice to rule
on McCoy shooting death
sewer line along the east side of Loop
288 near the Golden Triangle
Industrial Park from 10 inches to 18
inches at an additional cost of $23,500
—Approved a change in zoning from
single family to multi-family for
apartments an the northwest corner of
Airport, according to the sheriff's
office report
arrangements.
Evelyn P. McNeal
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wife, Creone Meaders of
Irving; his mother, Lula
Mae Meaders of Den-
ton; two sons, David
Meaders of Denton and
Mike Meaders of Cor-
Corner Elm
And McKinney
382-1623
J.C. Coiner of Denison:
and one sister, Corene
Carothers of Denison
three grandchildren
Services will be at 2
p.m Tuesday and burial
will be at Chico
Cemetery. Services will
be officiated by the Rev
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She was born June 9,
A ruling is pending from Peace
Justice Lon Darley in the shooting
death of Gregg Alan McCoy.
McCoy was shot once with a 22
caliber rifle Monday afternoon, ap-
parently a self-inflicted wound, in his
home south of the Denton Municipal
When the checks were returned to
the bank for insufficient funds, a bank
employee called the management
firm and was told the two checks had
been stolen, the report said
AUSTIN BUREAU
Drawer Q. Capitol Station
Austin, Texas 78711
‘ Tel: Area 512 478 5663
McCoy was taken by ambulance to
Westgate hospital and later tran-
sferred to a Dallas hospital, where he
died.
2 Biks. So. of lfarpoor’s
Corner Of Bell & Hickory
Open Thurs. & Friday.
Nites T# 8:00
Pepsico’ \
Repub of Tex
Rockwell Inti
Safeway
9 Regis Paper Co
Sears
Southland Corp
vw Ekthares
Texaco
Texas Industries
Texas instruments
Texas uritities
Union Oil of Calif
U.S. Industries
U.S. Steel
Zales Jewelry
proceedings on 10.6 acres of land
owned by First Texas Savings near
Kings Row.
Hospital.
He was born March
31, 1928, in Decatur. He
was a deacon of the
Trinity Baptist Church,
member of the Boyd
Masonic Lodge and Past
Patron of the Boyd
Eastern Star
Survivors are his
Denton police have issued an arrest -
warrant for a man being held in .
custody in Nacogdoches in connection
with the forging of two checks in
Denton in September.
According to the police report, the
man opened a checking account at
First Denton National Bank with two
checks drawn on the account of a
management firm, and withdrew $500
in cash. ,
a $5,000 deductable with a maximum
coverage of $1 million.
Not included in the coverage are the
police department and the utility
department, City Attorney Paul’
Isham informed the council.
“I feel, though, coverage for these
departments is negotiable," he said
The police department was ex-
cluded because of the greater risk of
liability the department faces, Isham
said. As for the utility department, he
Managers Association.
Isham said the policy would cover
any wrongful acts of council, board
and staff members acting as a group
or as individuals
in a suit pending in the Denton
County Court at Law, the council
Call For Your Appointment Today
382-6883
the photographers
DON BARNES AND ASSOCIATES
525 N Elm at Congress 3
Home Chapel. The Rev.
Carl Lambert conduc-
ted the services and
burial was at Flower
Mound Cemetery.
Mr.’ Womack was
born Sept. 18, 1911, in
A 22-year-old man arrested by
Denton police in connection with the
burglary of five businesses in an office
building on Interstate 35 Monday
faces charges in five other burglaries,
according to Capt. Hugh Lynch Jr
The man, released from the county
jail on $1,000 bond, is accused of
committing the burglaries of two
doctor’s offices and three businesses
during September, October and
November, Lynch said.
The suspect was arrested by, police
Monday as he allegedly fled the office
building after being found in the
building by an employee of One of the
businesses, the report said
Correction
As good as it sounded.
Lake Lewisville did not
rise 5 feet as a result of
last week's rain as was
reported Sunday.
In gathering the in-
formation, the lake
elevation data was
misread as 508.27. It
should have read 503.27,
an increase of 6 inches.
Since the officials did not have the
liability insurance at the time of the
suit, they will be responsible for
paying any damages the court awards
defendants CO Blasdell and Randall
Biddy.
In other action the City Council:
Mr. Swetmon was
born in Georgia Aug. 23.
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Christmas
Mr. Meaders died
Tuesday at Veteran’s
Hospital in Dallas.
He was born in Denton
County‘Aug. 24, 1917,
and married Creone
Barton in Denton Aug.
21. 1964.
He was a veteran of
by his wife, Essie Mae;
two sons, Marvin Wills
of Denton and Herman
Wills of Yantis; three
daughters, Evelyn
Broughton of Denton,
Denton, Ladell Loader,
also of and Velda Fern
Hart of North Little
Rock, Ark.; 12 grand-
California
Heath B. Ward
Funeral services for
Heath Brandon Ward,
age 3 months, of Denton
will be held at 11 a m
Friday at the Taylor
Park Nazarene Church
with the Rev. Bruce
Chamberlain officia-
ting.* L
The son of David and
Jerri Ward, Heath died
Monday at the Denton
Osteopathic Hospital
He was born Aug. 9..
Burial will be at the
Belew Cemetery in
Aubrey.
He is also survived by
his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. D.L. Ward of
Denton and Mrs. Sharon
Eddleman of Sanger .
Jack Schmitz and Son
Funeral Home is in
Member
udit Bureau Of Circus
Associated Press .
United Press International . pubbeation Nonite, 154000
Telephotos* *7
—Approved the oversizing of a Sherman and North Elm
—Approved beginning annexai ion
1922. of Argyle; one brother.
He is survived by a 9 1
$19.95 Installed
Lifetime Guaranteed Muffler
30 industries®
20 Transportation -
15 Utilities
London Gold
Today's Volume to 10:00 a.m., 5,510.000
shares
Ben Moturi
of Denton, who set a school record for
10,000-meter recently in the NCAA Cross-
Country Championships in Wisconsin.
mother, Mrs. Cordis
“Mary” Pound; two
stepsons, Jack Fowler
of Colleyville and David
Fowler of Boyd; one
step-daughter. Billie Funeral services are
Naomi Ely of Fort pending with Schmitz
NEW YORK
STOCK EXCHANGE
Selected tabular ion of stock prices as of •
10:00 a.m. New York time today as
quoted by Alan Weiss of Paine. Webber,
Jackson and Curt is of Dallas 'Figures
include lost sale and change from
previous day’s close
Bonanza Stk House
Justin Industries
Moore Corp
Morrison Incl.
N. Western Nat Life
PACCAR Corp.
Rep of Texas Corp
SouthwesternLhe
Dow Jones Average
1:00 a.m. New York time
805.79 up 1.4
$2095
AND UP
Weldon's.
Saddle &Western
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DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
Published every evening except Saturday and on Sunday morning by ■
. DENTON PUBLISHING co.
314 E. Hickory St. P. O. Box 369
Denton, Texas 76201
Telephone: Area 817-387-3811
and Mollie Marlett of
Nannie R DaughertyJacksborough; •and
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American Motors
Amer Tel & Tel
Bethichem Steel
Branifi
Brown Group
Brown & Sharpe
Church's Fr. Chick
Comm. Pub. Serv
Dr Pepper
East man Kodak
EnisBus Fms.
Ensearch
Exxon
Fairchild Camera
ist City Bkshares
list int i Bkshares
Ford
General Electric
General Mills
General Motors
—GoneralTel.
Gulf Oil
IBM
In' Herv
Josten's.
Kroger
Levi
LTV
Mere Tn Corp
Mobil Oil Corp
Pacific Lumber
JC Penney
children, 22 great-
grandchildren and five
great-grea t-grande h ■
ildren.
Jack Schmitz and Son
Funeral Home is in
charge of funeral
Worth; four sisters.
Billie Smithers of
Denton, Thelma Allen of
Irving, Sula Faye
Bradshaw of Yukon,
Okla., and Joyce Autry
of Lebanon, Okla.; and
Il grandchildren.
Floyd P. Pound
BOYD - Masonic
graveside services were
to be held at 10 a.m.
Subscription: $3.50 Month, $42.00 Year
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
Amy erroneous reflection upon the character, reputation * standing si
any firm, individual o corporation will gladly be corrected upon being
called to the publisher’s attention. The publishers are Nt responsible
for copy omission, typographical errors or any unintentional errors
me occur other than to correct them in the next issue after it is
brought to their attention. All advertising orders are accepted on this
bases only. * 1
was married to Charlie
Louis McNeal.
Mrs McNeal is
Services held
DIXIE LEE PEN-
NINGTON, 40, of 616
Juno, funeral services
were held Monday at the
Jack Schmitz and Som"
Funeral Home Chapel,
officiated by Goebel
Music Burial was at
IOOF Cemetery in
Justin. Pallbearers
were Ron Turner, Lela-
nd Skow. J.E. Jones,
Fred Turner, George
Dulaneand Joe Keck
Lillian Winterbauer of
Palo Alto, Calif., and
Elizabeth Kimball of
Irving.
Aubrey Swetmon
Funeral services for
Aubrey Swetmon, who
died Saturday at his
home in Lewisville, sicana; three
were held Monday in daughters, Doris Wilson
Griffin, Ga. of Red River, N.M.,
Shirley Stanley of
Denton and Pat Mason
Wednesday at Boyd
Cemetery,, following
services at Trinity services for Evelyn
Baptist Church, for * Pauline McNeel will be
Floyd Page “Pepper" held at 2 p.m. Friday at
Pound. Coker Funeral Home
The 50-year-old U.S. Chapel in Sanger.
Navy veteran died
Monday at Bridgeport
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been missing since Nov. 6 before it was found abandoned Tuesday at county.
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son, David Swetmon of
Griffin; one daughter.
Mae Doris Shaw; and a
sister, Jennie Swetmon.
The Lucas-Halden
Funeral Home handled
local arrangements.
James C. Pate
Funeral services were
held Monday in
Stockton, Calif., for
James Cecil Pate, 75,
who died Friday at
Lewisville Memorial
Hospital
Mr. Fate, a Stockton
resident, was born Oct.
27,1903, in Bengal, Okla.
He is survived by his
wife, Minnie Pate of
Stockton; a daughter,
Lawana McDonald of
Stockton ; a brother and
sister, Wesley Pate and
Fannie Kelly, both of
Wilburton, Okla.; three
grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren.
The Lucas-Halden
Funeral Home in
Lewisville was in
felt its exclusion was only because members. City Manager Chris
most municipalities do not have their Hartung and Utility Director Bob
own electric utilities. . Nelson have been sued individually
The package insurance plan was - responsible for a water and sewer rate
established by the International City increase in July. The defendants ask
for three times the damages they
suffered, amounting to $750.
However, as a class action suit,
each water and sewer customer in water line along Loop 288 by the
Denton is eligible to ask for similar Denton Mall from 8 inches to 30 inches
damages which could total to a set- at an additional expense of $218,900.
tlement of around $60,000. —Approved the oversizing of a
Jerry Davis of
Eastland, Maxine
Hadley of Olden. Norma
White of Rush Springs
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I ...LEWISVILLE - arrangements.
; Funeral services were Luther H. Meaders
: held Tuesday for Funeral services for
;' Gordon Earl Womack, Luther Harrison
:67, of Route 1, ‘Meaders, 61, of 2512
Grapevine, - at the. Shady Grove, Irving.
Lucas-Halden Funeral were to be held at 3 p.m.
Wednesday at the Jack
1918, in Denison, was a
member of Central
Church of Christ and the Chico Masonic
“ Lodge.
Mr. Mitchum is
Schmitz and Son by the Revs. Louis
Funeral Home Chapel. Crawford and DF
The Rev. Paul Duckett Acker. Cyrone’s Boyd
was to conduct the Funeral Home is in
services, with burial to charge
follow at Roselawn arrangements.
Irving, and he died Memorial Park.
Sunday in Lewisville. Mr. Meaders died Luther L.Wills
He is survived by five
brothers,George
Womack of Flower
Mound, Charlie
Womack of Fort Worth,
Buddy Earl Womack of
Grand Prairie, Dave
Womack of Irving and
Benny Womack of
California; and three
sisters, Pearl Toombs of
Little Rock, Ark.,
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Blotter
Man faces charges
in Denton burglaries
explosion at her home in
Anchorage
The 20-year Civil
Service employee had
of been working at
Eimondorf Air Force
Base in Alaska at the
time of her death. Miss
Funeral services for Daugherty was born in -
Luther L. Wills will be Cooke County Sept »
held at 2 p.m. Friday at 1922 .
Grace Temple Baptist She is survived by her
Church. The burial will parents, Mr. and Mrs.
follow at IOOF George Slinker of
Cemetery. Services will Denton; two brothers,
be officiated by the Rev Delmer Slinker of
World War II, and was a........Robert Richardson. California and
member of the Veterans . Mr. Wills, 89, died
of Foreign Wars and the Tuesday at Flow Roanoke; and
Disabled American "hospital. The self-
Veterans. He was a self- employed auto
employed carpenter salesman was born in
Dalton, Ga., Sept. 30.
1889. He was a member
of Grace Temple
Baptist Church and was
married to Essie Mae
Meador in Denton on
December 23, 1911.
Mr. Wills is survived
charge of
arrangements.
Marquis Mitchum
BRIDGEPORT -
Hawkins Funeral Home
is to charge of funeral
services for Marquis
Mitchum, who died
Monday at Leisure
Lodge.
The 73-year-old
Mineral Wells resident
was born Dec 15, 1904,.
In Ivan. He was a
Worth; one brother, Floyd-Hamlett Funeral
Kellis Wayne Pound of Home for Nannie Ruth
Colleyville; seven step- Daugherty, 56, of
grandchildren and five Anchorage, Alaska She
great-grandchildren, died Saturday from
Services be officiated burns sustained in an
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COUNTER STOCKS
Quotations fr om the National
Association of Securities Dealers are
representative interdealer prices as of
TO 00 a m. New York Time. Interdealer
market change throughout retail markup.
a Denton City Council members OK’d
a bid Tuesday night to provide most of
the city’s department heads, the
council and city board members
coverage under a Public Official
Liability Insurance package
The council approved the policy
proposed by the Unimarc-McDonald
insurance company in its regular
council meeting.
The premium on the policy will cost
the city 85,928 annually and will carry
• area
B deaths
MARVIN G. RAMEY - TERRELL w KING i
RANDALL L. MINNIS
707 FAST STATE BANK EDO 382-9evi
DENTON TEXAS 76201
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