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She said her son returned home last October to “think about the injustices a black man receives in the service.” She said he was harassed with petty annoyances and “racist mistreatment.”She said the youth and his friendsSniper’s mother blamesIhS, .““SiftOrleans sniper.The shooting in which her son was killed and six other persons died by sniper fire is a “clear signal for White America to get off the seat of its pants and do something,” Mrs. Mark Essex told newsmen Wednesday,“If this terrible thing will awaken white America to the injustices that blacks suffer, then some good will come of it,” she said.Mrs. Essex and her husband have scheduled a news conference today.Essex, a 23-year-old black, was shot to death by police on the roof of the DowttTown Howard Johnson’s hotel in New Orleans after sniper fire erupted at the hotel Sunday,Essex’ body is to be returned here from New Orleans today. Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday morning, with the Rev. W.A.Chambers, a close family friend, officiating.“We must cease provoking people to the point that they must seek revenge to get even with society,”Essex’ father said Wednesday as he and his wife spoke with newsmen for the first time since their son was identified as the slain sniper.“I blame society,” he said.Mrs. Essex said her son did not hate white men, “he hated what the white man stood for, the white system. He knew whites, he went to school with whites, he dated a white girl and then he told me that he didn’t know why blacks dated white girls because they’re no different than black girls and they’re not as beautiful.”She described her son as a good boy, a gentle man, always helpful.were stopped repeatedly by Navy police, forced to show identification and even searched at times. He took a part-time job in a Navy dub and was forced to ask permission to do part of his job that white sailors did freely, she said.' “It was just these little things on top of one another that made Jimmy do what he did,” Mrs. Essex said.Legal NoticesNOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING(First published in the Manhattan Mercury January 4. 1973; subsequently published January 11, 1973.)NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS The annual Meeting of the Shareholders of the Home Savings and Loan Association of Manhattan, Kansas will be held at the office of the Association, 630 Humboldt, Manhattan, Kansas on January 15, 1973 at 4:00 p.m, o’clock for the purpose of the election of Directors and transaction of any other business that may come before the meeting.Maurice L. Hill, SecretaryJOHNSON A. HOLMES ESTATE(First Published in the Manhattan Mercury December 29, 1972, Subsequently published January 5, 1973, and January 12, 1973.)tN THE PROBATE COURT OF RILEY COUNTY, KANSAS tn the Matter of the Estate of Johnson Aicott Holmes, a-it-a Johnson A. Holmes, a-k-a Johnson Holmes. Deceased.Case No. 6082NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATORNotice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs, devisees and legatees of Johnson Aicott Holmes, deceased, Hnd all others concerned, thaton the 27th day of December, 1972, the undersigned was by the probate court of Riley County, Kansas, duly appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Johnson Aicott Holmes, deceased, late of Riley County, Kansas.All parties interested in said estate will take notice and govern themselves accordingly. All creditors are notified to exhibit their demands against the said estate within six months from the date of first publication of this notice as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited they shall be forever barred.Helen Louise Bontrager, AdministratorGary F. Conklin Westmoreland. Kansas Attorney for AdministratorLegal NoticeW.M. McLEOD ESTATE(First published in the Manhattan Mercury December 28, 1972. Subsequently published January 4, 1973, and January 11, 1973.)IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RILEY COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF W.M. McLEOD, Deceased. Case No.6106NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED;You are hereby notified that a petition has been filed In said court by Gertrude McLeod, as widow and one of the belrs-at-law of W.M. McLeod, deceased, praying for the determination of the descent of the following described real estate in Riley County, Kansas, to-wit:An undivided one-half interest In and to the following;That part of Lot Eight (8) in Section Eighteen (18), Township Ten (10) South, Range Eight (6) East, described as follows: Beginning at a point that is 150 feet West of a point on the West side of Fourteenth Street (formerly Eleventh Street) in.the City of Manhattan, Kansas, that is 425 feet in a northerly direction from the intersection of the North line of the alley North of Leavenworth Street, in the said City, with the West line of Fourteenth Street (for-'* merly Eleventh Street) and running from thence West 145.5 feet to the East line of Fifteenth Street, in said City, thence South along the said East line of Fifteenth Street 70 feet, thence East 145 feet, thence North parallel with the said West line of Fourteenth Street 70 feet, to the place of beginning, and all other property, real and personal, or interests therein, owned by the said W.M. McLeod at the time of his death: and you are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 19th day of January, 1973, at 1 ;30 o’clock, P.M., of said day, in said court, in the City of Manhattan, In Riley County. Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered In due course upon said petition,GERTRUDE McLEOD, Petitioner ARTHUR, GREEN ARTHUR Suite 201-203 Union National Bank Tower Manhattan, Kansas 56502 Attorneys for PeMtinner
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