willrtieeJay,ardUn-seedun*hiehJan-theoun-:lud*—ifuldDEATH TAKESSHERIFF OFRIV. COUNTYEClofheThe man who frequently visited Sentinel, taking time out from his busy schedule to inquire about things in Desert Hot Springs and asking whathis department might do toserve the community, died Sunday, March 31.Sheriff Joe W. Rice would have been 55 Monday, April 1. He was a man who took special interest in this community, visiting here with the people of the area. He enjoyed Desert Hot Springs.Sheriff Rice was a man who neither drank nor smoked. He was htisky and apparently in the very best of health.He had just begun a new four-year term in January by overwhelmingly defeating four opponents for the office last spring and winning his greatest victory in his ten years as sheriff.Sheriff Rice was with theSlta-‘OUPcatR;silt;3ScthtoatedFIshedaa policeman in Fort Worth, Tex., in 1936 and later served with the FBI for 10 years.He graduated in law from the North Texas School of (Continued on Page 11)lion dolla It was the River of the be all natiormost.