The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 178, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 29, 1947 Page: 1 of 6
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t>y, dialing the old ,number but
won't be true after the new
Irectory comes out So please
setting Into the habit of
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GE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1947
NUMBER 1?8
YOLMUE XXXIV
15 in French Harbor
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Nearly 400 Hurt
' As Ship Blows up
, In Blast Recalling
Texas City Disaster
, Brest, France, July 29. (AP) —
Officials reported IS dead and at
least 422 Injured in this port to-
day from the explosion and fire
• -that wrecked the ammonium t l-
trate-lfiden Norwegian freighter
J Ocean Liberty yesterday.
Four of the injured died this
morning, the French Miistry of
> Marine said. Badly injured and
hospitalized at nearby Lander-
. Y "au were 46 others, flveof.whom
doctors termed critical. In ad.
dition, Ponchalet hospital report-
4 edit had treated 376.for cuts and
bruises inflicted by flying debris.
(Ammonium nitrate is a syn-
. thetic product relatively recently
developed. It is made by the in-
' traduction of ammonium gas into
nitric acid, and now is used
principally as a fertilizer.)
• Buildings Smashed
Hundreds more were severely
shaken when the nitrate went off
With a shattering blast that smash-
• ed in building fronts along the
sea frjpnt. set off an explosion in
the city's gas system, fired a gaso-
line storage tank and demolished
" lines of communication.
The ,10 listed as badly injured
ill were hospitalized at nearby
Landerneau.
In addition, officials at Poncha-
leL, hospital reported they had
treated 376 persons for minor cuts
and bruises inflicted by flying
debris.
' Most Dead Dock Workers
Most of the dead were described
as dock workers br seamen. The
fatalities, however, Included one
unidentified woman about 30 years
' Old. , ' , ; "i
The crew of the Ocean Liberty
had been taken off before the
• vessel's cargo exploded, but the
captain was reported badly in-
jured when struck by a flying
piece of metal while standing on
« shore. • • y *
Fires started by the blast still
Were burning today. Much •>?
Brest had been destroyed by aer-
ial bombardments during the war
• and many of the buildings in the
business district consisted of pre-
fabricated one-story wood, i
match Tjoxes.
Texas City Recalled
' ' The disaster recalled the ide^
struction of Texas City, Texas
last April 16 by a blast aboi
the French freighter Grpndcamp,
also loaded with ammonium ni-
trate. The j^st^" published tally
phowed>?0r1dlled and 302 missing
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• BALL PACKS BRIEF CASE—Sen. Joseph D. Ball (R-Minnrgets
an assist from,Mrs. Ball as he packs his brief case in -Washington
preparatory to leaving the "city when Congress adjourned.
(AP Wirephoto)
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President Returns Te Washington Today
To Face Flood of Pending Legislation
Attorne
Is "Imperfect"
For Both Sides ih
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CONN TO HEAD
HOUSING
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Kiser Says Note
To President Got
Contract Despite
Navy Disapproval
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Grandview, Mo-, July 29. (AP.)
—President Truman departed at
9:43 a. mi (CST), from Grand-
! vievrt airport for the capital,
N where a White House spokesman
said a "'flood" of legislation a-
| waited his approval.
! Tlie president paid, a final one-
Washington, July itf. tAPI «--4hrotr visit to the Truman cottage
Henry j. Kaiser testified today ! in Grandview, where' luneral
that he sent a brief note to ih-i j rites were he}d ^esterday for his
late President Roosevelt and got mother, , Mrs. Martha Ellen Tru-
a wartime contract, to build small ! man, 94, to say farewell to his
aircraft carriers after trip Navy j sister. Mary Jane Truman,
officials previously had rejectc-1 Then he motored to Grandview
his offer. • 1 airport and took off in the presi-
^ The wartime industrialist' told j dential plane, the Sacred Cow.
the Senate War Investigating j Accompanying, him on the re-
committee of the incident after j turn /-visit was the ambassador of
saying "I can't recollect" when I Mexico, Espinosa de los Monteros,
asked whether he went Fo the j who had come to Grandview to
White House in connection with
contracts he secured to build
cargo-carrying planes.
The committee is seeking facts
regarding some $40,000,000 worth
| of airplane contracts awarded1 to
Kaiser and Howard Hughes,"air
convey the condolences- of Pres|
dent Alemari.
Presidential. SecreJiwy^'Charles
G. Ross said thp--pfesident will be
faced wit])^irftood of all the bills
pasgfld^fn the- final days of Con- I San Francisco. July 89. (AP) —
fess—probably more than 150." The International Lions conven-
Jiass—were "mainlyjtion turned
James K. Conn, furniture deal-
er and civic leader, will head* the
new Citizens Committee on Hous-
ing appointed today by Miyor
Raymond SanderS^ Other mem-
bers, the mayor announced, [are
Cecil Beeson, /Levingston I
building company personnel di-
rector: H. B. Clem, business a-
gent for Carpenters Local 2007;
Harry Sutton, Du Pont special
services officer; Jim Ramsey,
manufacturer; • R. E. Kennerly,
contractor; and Ross D. Evahn,
executive director for public
housing developments here. E'x-
officio members will be the maybr,
John W. Simmons, director of in-
dustrial development, and WJ. A.
McNeill, Chamber of Commerce
manager.
The committee was named by
the mayor in response toa resolu-
tion^passed in an open forumdts-
cussion of the housing problem
held last Wednesday night in the
court house.
First meeting of the group, has
been tentatively scheduled for
Thursday night of this week with
place to be named later.
In announcing members ot-the
committee, the mayor called on
all local organizations and indi-
viduals interested in housing to
give it their full co-operation and
to carry to it any problems which
they think the group may help
out on.
Lions Begin Study
Of World Peace as
Convention Opens
f To Gain Justice
trial Relations
Terrhin* the recently-passed
Taft-Hartley bill a "far-reaching
but imperfect" attempt to secure
"justice" for Hbor and manage-
ment alike, A. .IV Moore, promi-
nent Beaumont attora^ey Monday
night outlined for nfa{jribers of
the Orange Lions club 1t^ their
regular bi-weekly meeting Nn the
Holland hotel the results of three
decades of effort by the federal,
government to bring permanent
industrial peace by legislation.J..
Moore admitted that he spoke
ip- "principally from the viewpoint of
management,~«ince he represents
a number of large industrial con-
cerns in the Sabine area. He de-
clared. however, that management
has nothing to gain by exploiting
labor or denying it. the rights gen-
erally admifted as belonging
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the working man. ' V
Trared Legislation
beginning with the first im-
portant labor law passed by the
Congress, in 1914, Moore traced
the history of legislation affecting
industrial relations down through
the famous railway labor act and
the Taft-Hartley bill. This law.
he averred, stands seriously in
need of correction and "undoubt-
1 edly will be corrected particular-
I ly aS it relates to the rights of ^
labor concerning participation in j i % j ———
political campaigns." ^ '■■■ TPL li' LJ J "V John A. Parris, Jr.
The attorney's speech ,in ordi- j I hTGC JCWS rlQUQGd j hake Success, July 20. (AP) ~
nately unbiased by his own legal r\--_ "a.- "T"U *• "T^ showdown between the United
connections, dwelt heavily In op- j yGSpitG I 111601 ! O j States and Russia on the critical,
position to the Idea that "the pen- P,,! |J _♦ fuaWfifl? w*i**peaU«i Ukv
dulym of labor legislation muNt JUDJcCI llOiy LQllQ jdiiy in the United Nations security
B-29 TO CARRY''21-TON BOStli Here'jcthe way the new 42,000- '
poUtid ^bomb developeVi fax the'Army Air Forces looks when attached
to a Boeing B-29. Superfortress which was modified by the Boeing
pltint-lji Wlohlta, Kansas, to parry the huge. bomb. First tests of the
bomb will be made, wtthing a few months. (AP Wirephoto)
Showdown on Balkan Question Expected
To Come
ifoutine legislation,"~Tiowev
its attention' from
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HE WAS A FRIEND INDEED
5 * and was likewise a friend when
f ' *—'' Orange city school^ were ln sore
need 6f enduring and efficient
help which was given by Repre-
sentative John M. Combs, whom
the people still like to call "Judge"
Combs". The assistance of Rep.
Corpbs in the school project par-
allels many others with reference
to Orange in which he took a very
sincere part and was likewise .suc-
cessful. Orange people are now
as long as "Judge" Combs" is in
I the Congress that they can expect
Vehicle Licenses
L. K. Brashier, 194° Ford coach;
' Wilbert Lawrence, 1939 Chevro-
j let coupe; C. L. Burleigh, 1941
j Mercury couple; E. L. Linsey,
! 1932 Ford Tudor; Pentecostal Gos-
pel Lighthouse, 1931!
Ford Bus. L i 1 a Mj
Kemper' 1941 Plymount tudor'
p. C. Angele, 1941 Bulck sedan;
Glen D. Hudnall. 1941 Chevrolet
coup§r"DD: Lawrence, 1941 Olds-
mobile fourdoor.
Property Nexotiatinns
Deeds: Margaret Perkins Cad-
man,' Jr. joined pro forjrrvr by her
husband, Reg. Cadman, Jr., to
Joseph Lakejf et ux, lots 7 and f.
of block 49 of the amended Shel-
don survey; Hal G. Carter to Hy
Goez et al, ptrt of J. *\4. Spauld-
ing survey; Martin Die^ u) Or-
So News City Hos Total of
1119 Scouts and
Scouters on List
of.
promoting
real representation.
^~^ MORg-HiailATING NOW
is necessary in Orange for the ma.
terialization of big projects that
may involve an avenue of en-
trance or an outlet for the sale of
the type of products that can be
best manufactured In any stage
here. It will likely be found that
from now on, instead of prolong-
ed hanging-fire propositions pre-
^ailling perhaps as some time ln
the past, that there will lBe a rap-
id-fire action that will prevail to
the end that people will have .to
keep on their tftitoes to see and
'snow just, whiffs going on.
F-—-
BROWNED — COULD NOT
SWIM was the sad fact connected
Orange has a total of 1118
Scouts and; Scouters it was an*
nounced today by the Sabine Area
office in Port Arthur. This in-
cludes 365 cubs, 317 Scouts.";93
senior Scouts, 102 Cubbers, 21.1
Scouters and 31 senior Leaders.
It was also stated that .several
Units have lapsed in their regis-
tering and must be re-registered
by September 1. They are Packs
'iOtK 'Rose. City Baptist church,
Methodist
| studying means
| world peace. \;v
I The organization, which has
| announced a world expansion
program and has sent consultants
to-the<major international confer-
ences on peace since the end of
the war, devoted one forum to a
discussion of1 the United Nations.
Among the more than 16,000
convention delegates are represen-
tatives of every state, Hawaii,
Canada and 17 Latin American
countries. Important speeches are
being translated into Spanish far
more than 800 delegates from Cen-
tral and South America.
Thousands lined downtown j
streets yesterday as the Lions pa- |
raded in 15 colorful divisions. The J
opening day's ceremonies ended !
wtih a Texas night party and a i
constantly swing one way or an-
other — either favoring the one
side or the other." Moore insist-
To Bath of Blood
ed that there can be found a hap-
Bv Kriwiirri Curtis
py. medium where most disputes | ''"lv 'Al '
can be settled by collective^ bar- TheBr"'"h '""T 1 ;kVVY "
gaining across the conference ! de 'an'^ of,H J*7' {
table | ground threat to-reti/liate with
Labor's Righti. |the execution of two British host-
tie detailed certain rights a J arul bathe the l.loly Lam,
belonging to labor without w l" ,',
tion, stressing particularly the' A.Br,l1!'h„'V,IU"r?r
rights to organize and bargain ™,nt «e|d Mrtr NaMr, VacoUb
collectively ^ WlesH and A b.so loin litibio were*
4 The address was closed with an |put,t0 Adci,th ;batWee.f and 5 « .
attack upon those Within the U. j m- Acre prison on Palestine h , u. s, |iro[,«sul
count il. -K. • , .
As theU'ouncii was called into
session, the question uppermost in
delegates minds- was:
Will RiiSojia veto or abstain
from voting on a U. S. proposal
to establish a "watchdog" com-
mission over the strife-torn
borders of the Balkans?
Way Cleared
The way lor a vote on the Am-
erican proposal appeared to. have
been cleared yesterday When the
council tentatively accepted a -se-
ries of minor amendments to, the
S. who adhere to or believe in
other forms of government with
several of the remarks drawing
north coast for their, part in tfjc
May 4 break'there, in Which 251
prisoners' were, freed and If? per-
sons killed.
dience.
The speaker was introduced by j
Frltt Lee.
Two New Members
Two new members were intro- 1
dueed Into the club by M. A. West
during the meeting, which was
presided over by Lion President.
W. B. Hilliard. They are John W.
Simmons and James H. Sheehy.
Dr. M. C. Couviliion ' invitel
members of the club to submit
questions to the Lions Education
committee for answering during
| later meetings.
said last night uiat lrgun-?<va-Le-
umi, to which ihe th ee belonged',
The only question remaining
bolofe the council began voting
on the American-plan was the sUe
of the proposed commission.
To Be Let For Work
Within Two Months
The Navy department will epend-
approximately $275,000 for per-
manent Improvements to ita
duties here, it was amnounced to-
day by Commodore A. O.
deaut, commander of the naval
station.- The announcement was
made through John W. Simmon*,
director of industrial development
for the city. v
According to a breakdown (ap-
plied the Industrial Development
committee by the commodore. The
improvements will include seven
40 by 100 foot prefabricated "But;
ler" buildings, a one-mile exten-
sion of the concrete road along the
bertmng area, drainage and flood
control work, and outdoor ath-
letic fields.
To Let Contracto .
All work will be done under
contract, the announcement tate<£
Plans and specifications are be-
ing, prepared by the staff or Coii^
modore Rabldcau in conjunction
with personnel of the Eighth Ni-
val district. C. P. Smith. Orange
civil engineer is assisting In pre-
liminary work for the roadway.
Contracts are expected to be let
In 30 to 60 days, the commodore
said. . \
Three of the new buildings w\ll
be located in the Navy yard ariM.
These will house carpenter, etec*
trical and plumbingv ^hipi. A
fourth will serve as a maintenance
•hop at the Navy's housing pro-
ject. The other three will hou* a
laundry, bowling alley, and "hoht
by. shop" for personnel in the
upper pier area. Tptal coat of H
the buildings was estimated it I
142,000. 1 r I
Will Bridge Gully Jpi
The roadway extension, to cost
approximately *1*0,000, WOP con-
nect with the^ present road juat
north of the mouth of
gully, croas that stream on a
bridge, run under the highway tM)
bridge approach on the west bank
of the Sabine river, and tra\el ln
a rlreultous route providing ac-
cess to principal areas of the
Navy yarif. Thia prdject also will'
Include some sidewalks and drain-
age improvements.
An extensive prpgram of
control and dralnagp work,
cluding,eerkw*y - hasebali 2
football frelds, and swamp grass
MMiiii I •' rea will
control in the upper pier ar
cost approximately $112,000
announcement said this wi
intended primarily to etftttfee
The ! ar6H and P,even^roslon.
The
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commission,' representative of all
. nations on the security council.
had tried British Serjeant C IH j f^ French .have suggest that
ford Martin and Merv iii Paice and
Also included in the prograhi,.
] but cost of which win not esti •
have suggest that ! mated, Will be construction of ten-
... , the cnmmisslon oe composed of | nls and volleyball counts and soft-
condemned them to ^ledth I'll In.-, only the six non-permanent mem-^j ball dlemOWle between the no#
ng members :.ille«aliy U'crti on ther eouncll.. ; recrat'ion hall and Cooper1! gUljy
occupying Palestine/ and von- , ,.r„IMVk„ ^ at the south end of the pier ZSL
sp nng o nppn n - i ; sov|ei Deputy Foreign Conversion of the formef Con-
cltizens of Palestine the sc- I Minlstw- Andret A. Gromyko re- i solldaled personnel building on
jmained silent throughout yester- j Navy street Into ah ofliceir^ el;
•day's debate, the Russian delegate j It wa announced, ts sch
This source aaltl that, win I n- i r- ; was expected to make a major | a later date.
geants were kidnapped July 12
at Natanya.
Slated For Today..
^Vldor; 3035, Salem
church, Orange; 3036, Mt. Zion j states night dance last night.
Baptist church. Orange; and 3102, j
Deweyvllie school. Troops which
anzo E. Dumas et ux, lot 11, block j have lapsed' are 20, First Baptist
15 of Gilmer's first COve addition; church, Vldorj 21, Rose City Bap-
Mrs. Russia Moore td Julius J.
Smith et ux, lots 3, 4. and 5 ol
block 1 of the A. S. McNeil addi- j Zion Baptist church, Orange; 101,
tlon, —j-MetwieevUle Group of Citizens;
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list church, Vidor; 35, Salem
Methodist church; Orange; 36, Mt.
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Release: W. J. Burton to E, P.
Balrd 10 acres which is a part of
Americans normally average
about 160,000,000 telephone con-
versations a day.
""Bogotc' gapitafsr-rarombia is
8,600 feet above sea level.
and 102, Deweyvllie school. Se-
nior units needing re-registering
ORANGE DELEGATES
ARRIVE SAFELY
The four delegates Of the Or-
ange Lions club attending the Li-
ons International convention in
San Francisco wired club mem-
bers here Monday that they had
arrived safely in that city. The
delegates are O. C. Gammage, Ellis
WgJjcr, Willey and Leroy
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companied by their Wives.
amotic cTTuiTTT, WKfnp
5008, North Orange Baptist
church; SSS 5035, Salem Metho-
dist church. Orange; and SSS j ——
*FOR
Orange. And Units due in Sep • CASHING VA CHECKS
] three soldiers." •
Tonight: Boy SAut Troop 3 at -v--—.
i Bruner Methodist church at 7:30 i... , ... .
p.m. Highwoy 9u Work
Orange Adult Recreation Band
■ in Bengal Music hall at 7:30 p.m.
Chess and Checker club at UJ?0
! at 7:30 p. m.
Fraternal Order of Eagles at
j WOW hall at 7:30 p. m. . .
Veterans interested In organizing
an Orange chapter' of Disabled
t Veterans In Gilmer Homes com-
munity center at 8 p. m-
Tonight: Calledmeeting of Mad-
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gun Commande.i-ifi-Oiicf Msua- .fi>ee<:h to'dpy, giving the Rffssian
chem Beigin 'had -confirmed 'hi i.""i position "arid' reireatiiig what course
I sentences, it was unlikely th~y he would take In the voting,
j would he executed "untU the ft- - As one Official of the Big Fi e
|rial disposition of the cas<5 of our said: "The chips are noW-down
and Mr. Gromyko holds the spot
-! of calling the play."
i grees.
Nears Completion
Repair of the Orange-Beaumohl
section of Highway lf(f in expect-
ed to be completed d'baut 3ei>tim-
ber i, the highway department
oflice announce*.!, today. The cony
structiotv" bci'i'Ri diuic„^""s'; 1'- of
widehitlg and repairing i;ole, in
the road, '
iL-W^JitaU'd jtiiat a revpTest had
Funeral Will Be
Held Wednesday
For Aged Woman
Funeral services will be held at
Fuller /uneral chapel Wfdnesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock for Mrs*
.iessie Tibbitts Henderson, 75, who
(lie;I Monday In Sugarland MUMSK
Nearly flnUhad ,
Work on, the Initial contract Un
the berthlni facilities t com-
plete except for minor installa-
tions, Commodore Rabideau an-*
nounced. This contract was for
approximately $2,630.0(10 A to-
tal of about 130 ships of th* TMfe'
as Group. Atlantic Reserve fleet,
are scheduled for eventual berth-
ing here. Of these, 119 already
have arrived and bav* been de-
activated end. processed for berth-
ing or are In the process.
'TH. Rites" will be saT
the ! 948 season. The camp will
open June 6, 1948.
with a yuoi^g married man whose j 5009 of Orangefield P. T. A.'
body was dragged from the deptlfs The office disclosed thai
bf Indian Lqke in the Orange area
last Sunday afternoon. Back in
the early life of that young mar>
probably the opportunity y for
learning to swim in a well ar-
ranged and protected swimming
pool did not exist in the locality
ln Which he lived. v It would be
appalling for any one to know
just how many people in the city
of Orange who can not swim be-
cause of the lack of swimming
pool facilities. - rtfCr
And Units due in Sep • j
tember are Troop 15 of Bridge j j Knights of Columbus
City Baptist church and Ship July 31 is the last day for Or-j hall at 8 p. m.
ange veterans to cash six months i ■ ■■——
to confer Masters' de- p"een . .
racTlc«!"meetmg of erete portion, C, II. Brown, high- Stigarland minister. Burial will
| DeMolays In Masonic temple at j way department ^engineer, saW'- be in Evergreen cemetery. Ser-
.7:30 p.m. j that if funds were granted in vices at the grAveside will be con-
in KC j.time, the laying of the ^jjhwit dutttd liy the Order of Eastern
that by outstanding readjustment allow- > FIRE DRILL HELD
September 1. the 8 troop sites at ance checks, Lester A. Hammond,
Camp Bill Stark will be named j manager of the Texas Employ-
and reservations ^ill be taken for ! ment commission warned today.
SCOTTISH RITR WILL
FOREGO Al'GtrST MEETINGS
Scottish Rite Will hold no meet-
ings during the month of August
it was announced today. Their
next regularly scheduled meeting
will be September 9.
4 On August 1 all veterans' re-
adjustment allowance checks
which are aix months old or old-
er will be Cancelled by order at
the Veterans Adminlatration. The
Employment commission, as Tex-
as agent of the VA, admlnsters
the unemployment and self-em-
plovment allowances provisions of
the G. I. Bill of Rights.
completed* around ytur, of which Mrs, Henderson was
|'a longtime member.
Rites Slotod for
Victim of Wreck
should be
Christmas,
Tbe present job is being done The deceased, waa the widow of
A drill in the actual opera- by the Harrison .Engineering and the late J. It. Henderson, Who died
tlon of fire pumps and a question Construction corporation of Kan- In 1934. She was born in Iowa
and answer period concerning the sas City, Mo. I but later moved to Louisiana and
essential parts of training for .fire- j "The present highway," Browft ■ finally to Orartgefleld where she
men Was held at a meeting of j said, "will have to serve until the j lived for about 25 years before go-
the_City Fire department Monday i regional four-ftipe highway Li !jng to Sugarland, ; ,
night in the central lire ItAtlwl,! built, which probably will be five; '.Survivors are two sons, H. C.
L- T. Smaihall. second aeslstani j years." Pete Henderson of Vinton, U .,
fire chief, directed the instruction , —'r* r—— • . and Tom Henderson of
meeting. | - It '* estirtttted 300 million n< )-.'on-mi; thnve daughters, Mrs.
V .—>■■■',—h-' : pie are stricken with malaria «vt'■ J. Davidson of Haidih, Texas,
Colohbie has the world's largest lery rear and of these three milv j Mrs Chtiney and Mrs William Mr-
productlon of eihmitds. Hon die. Vey of Beaumont.
ernoon jit 3 O'clock in
'' inTi^tetjijy^eN a£aren*f or Thom-
as OdellH^^B^Wr Was kill-
ed Saturday night about 7 o'
when the motorcycle on which
was riding with two other
collided wrkh a truck
Fenton and Kinder, La.
will be in fhrorgreen ceetery
der the direction of Claybar
neral home, with the Rey.
W. Powell, pastor of the
church, officiating.
six years ago.
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