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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1963
Page
7
A reflective column urging readers to plan the year with clear projects and aims. It emphasizes daily effort, setting campaigns, and decisive action to meet yearly challenges as advised by Julien C. Hyer.
Clyde Clayton Hull 51, of Buffalo Lakes area, was found dead in a cabin with a shotgun wound to the chest. Justice of the Peace George H. McCleskey conducted the inquiry. Hull’s note to his wife was found on a table. He owned a transmission repair shop and was a Mangum, Oklahoma native. Funeral arrangements were pending at Rix Funeral Home.
Focus on Health reports early frostbite warnings from pins and needles followed by numbness. AMA urges prompt thawing indoors and cautions against rubbing snow. The piece also covers reimplantation of severed limbs with 13 cases since 1958 and the variability of recovery. It notes researchers measuring infants crying thresholds to gauge nervous disorders.
NORAD reported higher alert status for Canadian components during the Cuban crisis. Five Royal Canadian Air Force squadrons with F-101 jets were ready to respond from Oct. 22, while Prime Minister Diefenbaker said Canada was not consulted in advance.
Police report include 159 arrests mainly for drunkenness as crowds of 10 000 jam Market Street. A 30 year old warehouseman Walter Martin was killed by rifle fire in a drive in lot. Suspects William Binderup Robert Phillips and Robert Harris jailed on murder and assault charges. A 17 year old secretary was abducted raped beaten and left after a five hour citywide ride.
A young mother, Hazel J. Whittington, 27, killed her two children with a shotgun in her trailer in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Neighbors overpowered her until police restrained her. she is jailed on murder charges. The 8-year-old daughter Wilma died on scene. 8-month-old Ronald died hours later at a hospital.
A Maryland family of five perished in a Florida Keys plane crash after takeoff from Marathon. Pilot Dr Edward Hass 43 and wife Barbara 42 died with three of four children Bonnie 18 Frank 13 and Marylin 10 as their single engine Cessna struck ground after engine sputtered and failed to return to base.
London reports Alicia Markova 92 says she is giving up acting dancing and will retire from the stage. The famed prima ballerina spoke at London Airport before boarding for New York where she began her career in 1920 at age ten.
Kenneth Huff five years old woke to a gas leak from a water heater and opened windows while dousing his mother with a wet cloth. He alerted a telephone operator and helped summon aid. all five occupants were hospitalized but out of danger at Gravette Medical Center. Ginger Blue, Missouri, is noted as the resort town nearby.
Britain says it will bolster nuclear striking power with a stopgap until Polaris missiles arrive from the United States in 1969. The Skybolt program was scrapped and options for a British substitute were not specified after talks with Defense Minister Peter Thorneycroft.
A fleet-footed burglar escaped from police shortly before 8 30 p m Tuesday after a detective saw him breaking into Lubbock Wood Works at 402 Ave O Lt James Fergerson said he was patroling in the area and saw a Latin American man in the back door of the building He left in a hurry His tracks were about five feet apart Police K-9 units lost the trail. nothing missing was believed to be taken
Last rites for J A Clark 78 retired farmer will be at 2 p m Thursday at Central Baptist Church with Rev E Harold Henderson officiating Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Park under direction of Rix Funeral Home Clark resident of the Lubbock area since 1931 died Monday night in West Texas Hospital Survivors include his wife four daughters three sons a brother two sisters twenty grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren Pallbearers will be Horace Boone Jack Hayslip Cliff Sherley Alfred T Whorter B F Smith and Jim Jeter
George Sumruld 49 prominent Lovington area farmer and rancher died at 6 p m Tuesday at his home from a heart attack services pending with Smith Yarbro Funeral Home He is survived by his wife Alice three daughters Mrs Vivian Messenger Air Base City Mrs Rosalee Thornhill Marlin Texas and Mrs Lastelle McPherson Lovington a son Wayne at home his father W E Lovington five brothers Jesse Elmer Leroy all of Lovington Sanford Denver and Walter Indianapolis Ind and a sister Mrs Annie Beulah Colorado
Funeral arrangements are pending for Marjorie Ruth Little 33 Portales resident and Eastern New Mexico University student killed in a one car crash on State Road 467 seven miles north of Portales. Survivors include daughter Leslie six.
Archie T Garlett 57 of Whiteface died Tuesday at a Levelland hospital after a day’s hospitalization. Funeral services are pending with George Price Funeral Home. He worked for Whiteface Public Schools, lived in the area 11 years, and moved from Hiwasse Arkansas. He was a Mason and IOOF member. Survivors include his wife three sons James of Littlefield Robert and Raymond of Whiteface a daughter Louise Strunk Lubbock a grandchild and three brothers G W Eloy Ariz C E Dover Okla and R L Ralston Okla.
Services for Frank Nelson aged 71 of 305 21st Street Lubbock will be held at 2 p m in Bethel AME Church with Rev A W Wilson officiating Burial follows at City of Lubbock Cemetery under South Plains Funeral Home direction Nelson a Navarro County native died Saturday at Methodist Hospital Survivors include his wife Minnie
Roy Edgar Smith 53 died at 12 05 a m Tuesday in a Galveston hospital. Services pending at Harmon Funeral Home Floydada. He was a native of Arkansas and had lived in Dickens and California before moving to Floydada in 1948. Survived by wife two daughters Fleeta Smith Floydada and Mrs Melba Poole Ida-Jou two sons Troy Lee in Okinawa and Coy M B Floydada.
Samuel C. Watts 62 vice president of Continental Trailways Southern Lines died Monday night from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Police said a coroner s inquest ruled the death self inflicted Watts formerly resided in Meridian and had lived in Jackson 18 years Funeral arrangements were incomplete
Hidalgo County commissioners named Julio Guzman to be county clerk filling the vacancy after the death of George Anderson who died last October and remained on the ballot. The appointment occurred in Edinburg Texas during the Tuesday meeting.
Vice Adm. William F. Raber reports in the Naval Institute Proceedings that the Navy intends a ten year research program on weather modification. The work would explore altering storm paths and directing storms as a possible future weapon against enemies.
Federal troops patrolled 10 cities and towns in Guerrero state to curb disorder as clashes left at least 37 dead per unofficial reports.
Friends and former Tech players organize an honor cavalcade for 11 a.m. graveside services at Mexia Cemetery for Pete Cawthon the longtime Texas college and pro coach who died Monday in Sherman. Survivors include his wife two sons and five sisters.
George W. Martin 78 of Slaton died at 9 a m Tuesday in a Lubbock convalescent home. Services 2 p m Thursday at Assembly of God Church with Rev B T Coker officiating. Burial Englewood Cemetery under Williams Funeral Home direction. Survivors include wife Lillie May four sons a daughter three brothers three sisters sixteen grandchildren four great grandchildren. Grandsons and nephews pallbearers.
Sir Charles Galton Darwin 75 theoretical physicist and former director of Britain's National Physical Laboratory died at his home near Cambridge. Grandson of Charles Darwin born in Cambridge in 1887, he led work in quantum physics and optics and directed the British Central Scientific Office in Washington 1941–42. Survived by his widow four sons and a daughter.
Lucian C Bowles 52 Amarillo former Lubbock resident died at 1 pm Tuesday at Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo with Sanders Funeral Home. Bowles was chief engineer at an Amarillo hotel and had lived in Lubbock 20 years before moving to Amarillo in 1955. Survivors include his wife Carrie M a son L C Jr two stepdaughters two sisters Mrs George Aldredge Hopkinsville Ky Mrs Ruben Royster Anniston Ala and three brothers Frank Hopkinsville G B 2512 53rd St and Gayle 2107 ath St Lubbock.
Austrian born conductor Hans Rosabaud head of the Baden Baden radio orchestra in West Germany died in Lugano Switzerland at his vacation home after a heart ailment. He was 77.
Reynold F. Heimerman 38 of 3512 57th St was dead on arrival at Methodist Hospital at 12 15 p m Tuesday after an apparent heart attack Funeral services are pending with Henderson Wilson Funeral Directors He was a Leather Co salesman and a Lub bock resident for eight years Survivors include wife Golda Juanita a son Phillip and a daughter Victoria all at home two brothers Harold Hutchinson Kane and Lawrence Enid Okla four sisters Bernice Campfield Mission Kan Jeanette Kaja St Louis Teresa Marie Beckett Omaha Neb and Doris Ann Case III Greeley Colo and his parents Mr and Mrs A A Heimerman Hutchinson Kan
Jacob Albert Riethmayer 86 native of Germany and longtime area resident died at home in Dawson County. A retired farmer of Lamesa for 12 years he moved to Martin County in 1914 and to Dawson County in 1917. Services at Grace Lutheran Church Thursday at 3 p m with burial in Lamesa Cemetery. Survivors include three sons a daughter a sister a brother 10 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren Pallbearers listed. Funeral by Higginbotham Funeral Home.
Funeral services for Zac L Wright 79 of 3403 33rd St will be held at 3 p m today at Ford Memorial Chapel First Baptist Church with Dr J Ralph Grant and Rev J T Bolding officiating Burial will be in City of Lubbock Cemetery under Sanders Funeral Home direction He was a church deacon and had been ill for two months surviv ors include his wife a son Charles L 3403 33rd St two grandchildren Charles L Wright Jr Austin and Mrs John Mullin Lubbock four grandchildren Pallbearers listed
Arden Andrew Brown longtime farmer dies at home after a heart attack. Services in First Methodist Church Floydada officiated by Rev. Charles Luttrick. Burial in Floydada Cemetery. Born Wortham native moved through Throckmorton Petersburg Blanco before retiring to Floydada. Survivors include two brothers Belvie and Ira and sister Mrs W N Anderson.
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