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D. 1955
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Saturday Evening, July 9. 1955
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Campbell Draws
Suspended Term
In Assault Case
A jury Friday found Charles
Rayford Campbell, 20, of 618 Hen-
derson St., guilty of assault with
intent to murder without malice.
Campbell was given a two-year
suspended sentence.
Campbell was found guilty of
shooting Ross Hart, operator of
the Blue Goose Inn, in the stomach
last May 27 with a .16 guage shot-
gun. The shooting followed an ar-
gument.
Mrs. Lee Gray of 1289 Chestnut
St. became the first woman known
to have served as foreman of a
Some days a feller just can’t
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Kervin Rode Stark, 3% months,
broke a leg while nestling in his
crib Thursday for a nap.
Kervin, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.
E. Stark of 1710 Green St., rolled
over and started to cry. The per-
Dr. C. L. McInturff
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Preston Foster — Lon McAlliste
criminal jury in 104th District
Court. She was the only woman
on the jury and was named fore-
man by the 11 men.
Campbell was represented by
Jack Tidwell, who was appointed
by the court. Tom Todd, district
attorney, prosecuted for the state.
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W. A. Albritton, 76,
Hamlin Grocer; Dies
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A. Albritton, 76, retired grocer and
resident of Hamlin for 49 years,
died at 12:02 a.m. Saturday at
his home here at 129 N. Central
He died of a heart attack after a
short illness.
Funeral services will be held at
4 p.m. Sunday in the First Baptist
Church here.
Mr. Albritton was active in Ham-
lin church and civic affairs. He
Judge Demands
Appearance of
Child in Dispute
DEDHAM, Mass. a - Probate
Court Judge James F. Reynolds
has demanded the immediate ap-
pearance of Hildy McCoy: the +-
year-old pawn in a long religious-
years, a charter member of the
Rotary Club which he helped or-
ganize 25 years ago, a deacon in
the First Baptist Church and a
past worshipful master of the Ma-
sonic Lodge. He was one of the
persons instrumental in building
the present First Baptist Church
here about 25 years ago.
He was active in Rotary’ work
until his death.
Mr. Albritton was born Nov. 6.
1878, in Downsville, La. He operat-
ed a grocery store here for 30
J. H. Marr Rites
Held at Snyder
SNYDER, July 9, Funeral for
J. H. (Uncle Jack) Marr, 79, re-
tired Snyder water well driller,
was to be held Saturday in Bolger
Chapel.
Lester Raines, pastor of Jehovah
Witness Church, was to officiate.
A second service was slated later
Saturday in the Canyon Baptist
Church with the Rev. Cleck Smith,
pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Ira Cemetery
under the direction of Bolger Fu-
neral Home.
Mr. Marr was born Aug. 21, 1875
in Tennessee. He moved to Texas
with his parents and settled near
Dallas when a young boy. He
moved to Scurry Ctunty in 1901
and married Nancy Martin.
They lived in Odessa from 1903
until 1947 when they returned to
Snyder.
Survivors include his wife: one
daughter, Mrs. O. L. Moody of
Odessa; three sons, Milton, Olen
and A. C. Marr. all of Odessa; one
sister, Mrs. Effie Franklin of Big
Spring: one brother, C. C. Marr
of Snyder; and 15 grandchildren
and 13 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were to be Jack and
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Leonard Moody, Lowell, Jack and
Ray Martin, and Richard Marr.
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former Metie Pardue whom he, . .
married in 1901 at Downsville: a Clyde Difet Dendind
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Thurman of Anson, whose husband
adoption dispute.
Hildy is in the custody of Mr.
and Mrs. Melvin Ellis of Brook- |
line. a Jewish couple Her natural |
mother, Marjorie, who gave her
in adoption to the Ellises four
years ago, wants her back. Mar-
jorie is Roman Catholic.
Hildy’s mother is seeking to re-
voke the adoption under Massa-
chusetts law which says where
practicable a child must be given
in adoption to foster parents of
the same religious faith
The Ellises, who have had Hildy
since she was 10-days-old, say they
do not believe the child’s mother,
now Mrs. Marjorie McCoy Do-
herty of Hingham wants her. El-
lis says he believes the mother
wants to give her in adoption to
someone else.
For Mrs. Konczak
is district clerk of Jones County: •
seven grandchildren; two brothers,
C. E. Albritton and Boyce Albrit-
ton, both of Downsville, La.
CLYDE, July 9 — Funeral ar-
rangements for Mrs. Ignatious
Konczak, 73, longtime Clyde resi-
dent, are pending. The rites will be
in St. Joachim Catholic Church but
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3 Feared Dead
In Flash Floods
LANCASTER, Ky. (—Officers
waited for waters to recede today
to check reports that three per-
sons may have died in flash floods.
Meantime, damage estimates ex-
ceeded the million-dollar mark in
the rich burley tobacco growing
area of Garrard County in central
Kentucky. More than two inches
of rain fell yesterday in six hours.
Sheriff L. C. Daniel said high
Russell Defends
His Reserve Plan
WASHINGTON —Sen. Russell
(D-Ga) today stuck by his pro-
posal to exempt veterans from
compulsory reserve training, de
spite Pentagon opposition
"I still think I’ve got the best
plan," said Russell, chairman of
the Senate Armed Services Com-
mittee
Russell spoke in an interview
after receiving a letter in which
Secretary of Defense Wilson
stressed the administration’s be-
lief in the need for reserve duty
by "individuals who have served
with the active forces.” However,
Wilson assured Russell the Penta-
gon plans to use the least possible
“enforcement measures.”
water prevented him from enter-
ing the hardest hit sections yes-
terday to investigate reports of
the drownings.
Two unidentified children were
reported to have drowned and a
man, Clyde Newby, about 54, was
reported missing.
Two houses, two automobiles and
a number of barns were swept
away by the flood waters. Several
hundred acres of crops were said
to be destroyed.
Damage also was heavy in other
nearby counties.
the date has not been set.
Mrs. Konczak died at 8 p.m. Fri-
day at her home after a long ill-
ness. Born in Long Prairie, Minn.,
she was married in 1900 in Minne-
sota. The couple moved to Donna,
Tex. in 1917 and to Clyde in 1922.
Her husband, who died in 1946,
was a prominent Clyde merchant
Mrs. Konczak was a member of
the Catholic Church.
She is survived by three daugh- |
ters, Mrs. J. M. Cauble of Bal-
linger, Mrs: Theo Baach of Abi-
lene and Mrs. I. D. Modissette of
Wichita Falls; five sons, Frank |
and Herbert of Clyde, Edward of
Baird, Clifford of Glove, Ariz., and
Steve of Port Angeles, Wash.; one
sister, two brothers, four half-
brothers, 20 grandchildren and
nine great-grandchildren.
Bailey Funeral Home is in
charge.
THE
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State University
Set to Integrate
AUSTIN, Tex. -University of
Texas regents have decided to ad-
mit Negroes to the school begin-
ning in the fall of 1956.
They would be admitted earlier
if the school weren’t already over-
crowded, the board said yesterday.
The regents—in what Chairman
% Armed Services Committee pub- Tom Sealy called “an historic de-
dic hearings on the program to cision"—also ordered immediate
Guild a combat- ready reserve admission of qualified students to
force of 2,900,000 by 1960 were in the graduate school regardless of
recess until Monday Defense offi- color. They ordered admission of
cials were scheduled to testify at’-all qualified students beginning
that time
Mrs. Biggerstaff’s
Funeral Set Sunday
SWEETWATER. July 9 — Fu-
neral services will be held in the
First Methodist Church at Frisco
at 2 p.m. Sunday for Mrs. J. Fred
Biggerstaff, 68, of Frisco.
Burial will be in Celina
Mrs. Biggerstaff died Friday at
her home after a long illness. She
was a native of Celina but had re-
sided at Frisco for 25 years.
She is survived by her husband.
Frisco real estate dealer; four
sons, R. F. Biggerstaff, district
manager of International Harvest-
er at Sweetwater, Paul of Dallas,
Charles of Denton and Leslie of
Ceilna: two -daughters, Mrs. Buck
Polser and Mrs. Hollan Treada-
way of Fort Worth; two sisters,
two brothers and 10 grandchildren.
this fall to Texas Western College,
a University of Texas branch at
plexed parents called a doctor who
X-rayed the infant’s leg.
Kervin left the hospital wearing |
a cast from the waist to his toes
on the left leg and down to the
knee on the right leg. The cast
had to be extended to keep Kervin
from complicating matters, his
mother said.
Kervin was the victim of ill luck
while his mother was attending
summer class at Abilene Christian
College and his father was baby
sitting with the four children.
Attorney Argues
Red Brain Washing
As Legal Defense
argument Friday that brain wash-
ing should be a legal defense
against charges of misconduct
while a prisoner of war.
For three hours, attorneys for
Cpl. Claude J. Batchelor argued
for reversal of the Korean war
veteran’s conviction.
Joel Westbrook, a civilian attor-
WASHINGTON, July 9 @0 — An
Army Review Board heard an ney from San Antonio, told the
three-colonel board that Batchelor
was “a victim of Communist brain
washing” and that the Chinese
Reds had forced on him “as in-
duced political psychosis.”
The Review Board took the case
under advisement after a day of
hearings. Westbrook said he ex-
pected a decision in about a
month.
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Due Inheritance
: SANTA FE, N.M., July 9-
J B. Brown of Lubbock, Tex., who
killed his mother in 1942, can share
I legally in her estate, the New Mex-
‘ico Supreme Court ruled Friday
“Although we abhor the crime."
i there is no law which prevents
Brown from inheriting five-eighths
of his mother’s estate in Roosevelt
County,” the court said.
Brown was sentenced to a 40-50
year prison term but is currently
on parole.
A score of cousins appealed
brom district court decision.
El Paso.
The regents’ action capped a
series of desegregation steps in
Texas and the Southwest this week.
The public school system at Hoxie,
Ark., will open Monday on a non-
segregated basis for the first time.
Illinois Schoolman
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ter Buford, 57-year-old Mount Ver
non. III . superintendent of schools
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