Franchot Tone Dies at 62 in Manhattan Home
Actor Franchot Tone, famed for elegant screen roles and a turbulent private life, died Wednesday at his East Side New York residence at age 62. He will lie in state at Campbell Funeral Home from Thursday noon to Friday noon with private services to follow. Tone’s career spanned theater radio film and television ending with notable courtroom themed roles. He married four actresses Joan Crawford Jean Wallace Barbara Payton and Dolores Dornheft and faced publicized marital battles including a near-fatal fight with Tom Neal during his marriage to Ms Payton.
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Rhodesian Front: Albert Mells Wins Gatooma Seat
In Gatooma Rhodesia Albert Mells secured the parliamentary seat after a by election. The Rhodesian Front party claimed a solid confidence vote while opponents tied to the kawa teimist showed no support. The victory marked the party’s first by election win.
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Russians Stay Mum On Space Shot Near Moon
British scientist Sir Bernard Lovell and Jodrell Bank officials pressed that a Soviet probe approached the moon at 6 a.m. GMT despite Moscow denying the report. They maintained the craft was under Russian control and likely returning or continuing outward, amid shifting readings and data transmissions.
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Funeral Friday For Mrs. Bush
Hereford special report on Mrs. Ethel Fannie Bush 65 who died in Amarillo after a five day stay. She moved to Hereford in 1947 from Dalhart and will be laid to rest in Dalhart Cemetery after funeral at Avenue Baptist Church with burial by Clathhorn Funeral Home Friona. Survivors include Everett Buckmaster O L eldest son Hazel Warrick Myrtle Lindley and four grandchildren.
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Funeral Friday for Mrs. C. E. Wells in Paducah
Services for Mrs. C. E. Wells 83 who died Tuesday in an Amarillo rest home will be held at 11 am Friday at the Paducah Church of Christ with Don Tarbet officiating. Burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery under Norris Funeral Home. Surviving daughters include Jamie Cate Paducah G. M. Welsh Amarillo R. W. Burks Dodge City Kan. Sons C. W. Denton Doyle Dodge City G. A. El Paso. Brothers Will Brannan Portland Texas Guss Brannan Indian Gap Fred Brannan Lubbock. 14 grandchildren 11 great grandchildren.
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Mrs. Coleman Rites Planned
Surviving Lovington resident Surmilda Ann Coleman 89 died Wednesday in Lovington Lea General Hospital. Graveside rites set for 2 p.m. at Inez Cemetery with Rev. A R Vaughan officiating. She lived here nine years with daughter Effie Maxwell and is survived by four sons four daughters a sister and many grandchildren.
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John H Ellis Services Pend
John H Ellis 74 of 512 42nd St died at 1 30 am Wednesday at West Texas Hospital after three days hospitalization. Services are pending at Franklin-Bartley Funeral Home. A 20 year Lubbock resident formerly of Lorenzo, he leaves two daughters Miss Mabel Ellis of 512 42nd St and Mrs Nadine Cotton of Napa Idaho, plus a brother.
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Doughnut shop hit as would-be bandit terrorizes attendant
A man described as a Negro attempted a rear entrance robbery at the Southern Maid Doughnut Shop in Lubbock late Wednesday. The young female attendant, talking to police on the phone, was cut and hid under a table as the suspect fled before officers arrived. The robber, who carried a wrapped object, was still at large early today.
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Salazar Reels From Stroke As Doctor Panel Reviews
In Lisbon an American specialist joined Portuguese doctors to assess Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar after a stroke left him in a coma. Dr. Houston Merritt of Columbia University Medical Center consulted with local physicians as Caetano emerges as a potential successor amid cautious military alert and political speculation.
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Tambunga Rites Planned Today
Tambunga Asencion Tambunga 47 farmer died Tuesday morning after a long illness in Slaton Rest Home. Services at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church officiated by Rev James Harrison with burial in Englewood Cemetery. Survivors include wife Santos three sons Joe Albert Paul four brothers and three sisters.
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Corbett Hosts 90 Minute Syndicate Talk Show
Monica Corbett launches a own Hollywood style 90 minute variety talk show now airing.
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Mrs Jim Moore Services Friday
Mrs Jim H Mabel Moore 72 died at home after a brief illness. Justice of the Peace ruled a heart attack caused the death. Services set for 2 p.m. Friday at Brownfield Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with burial at Terry County Memorial Cemetery. Survivors include three sons five daughters two sisters twenty grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
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Dwayne Kisor
San Angelo
Fritz Barthold
Bill Parker
Bobby Bowlin Rites Arranged in Brownfield
Services for Bobby Bowlin 31 will be at 2 pm today at Southside Church of Christ with Doyle Kelcy and Douglas Rohre officiating. Burial at Terry County Memorial Cemetery. Bowlin, a Brownfield native, died Tuesday after an extended illness. Survived by wife Shirley Ingram of Brownfield, two daughters Diana and Shirley, a son Terry, his mother Addie Lee Bowlin, three sisters Reena Reeser Lovington Virginia King and Glenda Henry.
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Levelland
LMCOG Receives State Planning Grant in Summer Payouts
Gov John Connally announced approval of more than 65000 in state planning assistance grants including 1965 for the Lubbock metropolitan Council of Governments LMCOG. Alden Deyo LMCOG executive director says this is the third grant for the Lubbock area this summer and a continuation of the first two. He notes the final grant was held back for newly organized councils seeking aid.
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Bread of Life sermon allusion by Julien C Hyer
The piece frames the Bread of Life theme from John 6 35 as a call to action blending faith with daily work It portrays spiritual nourishment as a loaf made from God ingredients with yeast courage grain of Truth and the skill of Salt and urges believers to earn their Daily Bread by living their assigned part.
Funeral services for Arnold Monroe Turner in Silverton
Arnold Monroe Turner 63 dies Tuesday in Swisher County Memorial Hospital. Services at 3 p m today in First Methodist Church with Rev Hardy Cole and Rev Marvin Fisher officiating. Burial in Silverton Cemetery directed by Silverton Funeral Home. Turner farmed north of Silverton and had been a Briscoe County resident since 1918. He is survived by Kate a son Jaye of Mesquite three daughters Janice Odom Tulsa Jeanette Martin Conroe Jo Ann Griffin Conroe two brothers Orvil Silverton Omar McIntosh N M two sisters Oneal Watson Amarillo Elmer Gilkerson Dallas his mother Mrs S R Turner Silverton and five grandchildren.
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Amarillo
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Dallas
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Aston to Stage First General Assembly in London
In Hollywood reports John Aston will produce direct and the United Nations opens with Victoria Shaw in London on January 10, 1946 for the film Prelude.
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Plainview attorney to speak on insanity defense at meet
Plainview attorney Bob Gibbons will speak at 6 p.m. today to the South Plains Trial Lawyers Association at In Town Inn 1202 Main St. The topic is Insanity As a Defense in Criminal Cases. Broadus Spivey reports the program and venue.
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Funeral Friday for Mrs Kidd Ackerly Area Resident 75
Mrs Willie Augusta Kidd aged 75 longtime area resident died at Medical Arts Hospital Lamesa Funeral services set for Friday 4 p.m. at Church of Christ with ministers John Greason Leon Davis and Charles Burk officiating Burial in Lamesa Memorial Park Branon Phillips Funeral Home in charge She was born in Comanche County and lived in Ackerly since 190T Survived by son J L Jr of Lovington NM two daughters May Oma Lewis of Ackerly and Huey Hamit of Odessa three sisters Geneva Brandenberg C Flemings both Loop and C M Elyson of Lamesa four brothers T O Hunt D N Hunt R L Hunt Jr of Loop and R C Hunt of Lamesa eleven grandchildren and one great grandchild
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