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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1971
Page
2
The Lubbock Avalanche Journal reports on hurricane effects across Texas as warm, partly cloudy conditions persist. South Plains and coastal belts experience winds from the east and northeast with highs reaching the upper 80s to 90s and overnight lows near 60, while coastal areas see partly cloudy skies.
Senator Winston J. Prouty of Vermont died Friday at New England Deaconess Hospital after gastric cancer followed by surgery for a stomach ulcer. The 64 year old served in the Senate since 1980 after eight years in the House. Funeral plans are incomplete. Milk price update reports June output near 60.5 billion pounds with farmers receiving $5.54 per cwt.
Marland Stanley Reed 20 of Dimmitt died at home after illness. Service set for 3 p.m. Monday at First Baptist Church Dimmitt with Dr. Raymond Perkins officiating. Burial under Dennis Funeral Home. Reed a Ridgecrest California native moved from Borger in 1964 and attended West Texas State. He was a local graduate and student at area schools. Survivors include his parents Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Reed and siblings.
Forecasts predict mostly clear and hot conditions across the region with extreme highs reaching 114 degrees in Parker Arizona and Thermal California and a low of 34 in Alamosa Colorado. Florida reports heaviest rains with Tampa airports logging over 3.5 inches, flooding in Tampa Bay area, and two Pinellas County schools closed. New Orleans sees 1.19 inches as Hurricane Fern’s fringe affects the area.
Note Seay 62 of 3408 36th St died about 11 20 am Friday in University Convalescent Center. Services 2 pm today at Northside Church of Christ with Garnie Atkisson officiating. Burial by Rix Funeral Directors. Survivors include two daughters and four sisters and four brothers. Pallbearers listed. Payroll rise 600 pct New York royal government education workers costs 1949 to 1959.
Services for Leroy Witt Taylor 74 will be at 2 p.m. in the Lorenzo Church of Christ with ministers Sterling Walker and Henry Lynch officiating. Burial will be in the Ralls Carter Funeral Home in Ralls. He died after an apparent heart attack while driving home from Lorenzo. He was born in Mills County and moved to Lorenzo from San Saba. he leaves a son John of Lubbock, a daughter Mrs Mack Holcombe of Lorenzo, a sister Mrs Very Mumford of Tyler, seven grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
Lynn Ce cilia Eusan 23, first black UH homecoming queen, found stabbed at a traffic crash scene. Driver Leo Jackson Jr., 26, charged with murder after autopsy ordered. Police say she cried and stabbed herself during ride. Jackson injured with knife wounds.
David Wilburn Holladay 73 a Littlefield resident for 40 years died about 4 am Friday at his home after a long illness. Funeral 3 pm Sunday at First United Methodist Church with Rev. David Hamblin officiating. Burial in Littlefield Memorial Park. Survived by wife two daughters Hazel Davois Tulsa Bettye Smith Littlefield a son Bob Austin a brother Dan Teague a sister Mrs R C McGilvary Hereford eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Lonnie Melton 25 of 602 University Ave requested a writ of habeas corpus in 137th District Court claiming his $5,000 bond was excessive and he has been jailed since Aug 27. Judge Robert C. Wright ordered a psychological examination before further action on his bail release petition.
The iMars bound Mariner 9 on its 102nd day in flight sits about 28.1 million miles from Earth and 161.8 million miles from the Sun as it advances toward Martian orbit. A program report notes cameras to map parts of Mars and plans for a November meeting of the George White Scout District.
Mrs. Virginia Tucker 81 of Post died Thursday night at University Convalescent Center Lubbock after six months there. Native of Quitman she lived in Post 40 years and belonged to First Baptist Church. Service 3 p.m. at First Baptist Church Post. Burial Terrace Mason Funeral Home. Survivors: husband Henry Odessa. daughters Marjorie Gearhart Texline Juanita McBee Brownwood Maxine Cummings Post. sons Clovis Post Max Odessa. 14 grandchildren 3 great grandchildren.
Idalou resident Buddy Winters produced the first bale of cotton ginned in Lubbock County this year. The bale weighing 437 pounds was recorded at 6:30 p m at Idalou Co op Gin with Charles Anderson as manager. A jury panel turnout stood at 22 percent as the Grand Jury Commission, named by Judge C D Milburn, predicted a county total near 240,000 bales for the season.
The reader cites a biblical verse about the poor and notes a shift from personal charity to state responsibility. Julien C Hyer contrasts Jesus teaching in John 12 8 with a governmental approach to aiding the less fortunate.
Five people were killed when two cars collided head on on Texas 136 about seven miles north of Amarillo. Investigating officers said one car was in the wrong direction and struck the other two vehicles. The dead include Frances Price Clayton 34 of Borger and two of her daughters Kathy 6 and Cynthia 8, plus Galena M. Sober of Borger and Dorothy Steele of Amarillo. A witness said he narrowly missed Mrs. Clayton’s car minutes before the crash.
Rites set for 16 year old Willie Ray Collier killed in Dunbar High School shooting. Service at Triumph Baptist Church Slaton at 2 30 p m with Rev M A Brown officiating. Burial Englewood Cemetery Jamison Funeral. Carver charged with murder in juvenile court. Witnesses report confrontation over cigarettes preceded the shooting. Police recovered a .22 revolver from the Carver home.
Judge Denzil Bevers set bonds Friday in County Court-at-Law for six defendants who pleaded innocent including six Dunbar students facing charges tied to a memorial fund for a slain youth. Funds raised will aid funeral and related expenses. A separate teen, Willie Collier, 16, was among those cited, with others named along Weber Drive and East 10th Street. In a related case, a Buna man was fined after pleading guilty to theft. and in Dallas Mary Jones, 68, died in a two‑car crash Fostered by the day’s traffic incidents.
Steven Neal Ellis died at about 8 a.m. Friday after 11 days in Jin Lubbock’s Methodist Hospital. Services are set for 2 p.m. Sunday in Earth conducted by Rev. David Hartman. Burial in Earth Cemetery. Parsons-Ellis Singleton Funeral Home directing. Survivors: parents, three sisters Sherry Lori Brenda, grandparents H. N. Ellis and Ed Wheat, all of Earth.
Two service members died and a third was injured in a two car crash 4.9 miles east of Seguin on U S 9 Friday noon. Air Force Sgt Charles James White 23 Gideon Missouri and Army 2nd Lt Wayne T Chauvin Danielson Conn died at the scene. Charles William Spratlin 29 of Houston was treated at Guadalupe Valley Hospital in undetermined condition. Spratlin drove one car and Chauvin the other, highway patrol said. White was a passenger in Chauvin’s vehicle.
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