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(Disftman's Late Town and Gown founder involved students in theater Antiques Matt i-" 1 4g0PE0 MOUSED SATURDAY SUIIDAY UAB. 20 21" 10 AKI Till 5 PM 88 Located on Kwy. 431 at Velllngton, AL Between Gadsden Anniston, AL 205892-2424 I ill New Office in Pell City 5 EE CELLULAR PHUiMc RESTRICTS ALL CALLS uu Celebrating Our TOIPLEEICTRONIC LOCKS WHILE SUPPLY LASTS! rMv Ttwrj Ponr.n AMINfi ID Fit Photo James Hatcher, Birmingham's 'Mr. Theater' authorized agent of Local stale and federal governr.wrt inptoyoes quality (or discounted monthly service lee! BeBSouth Mobility THERESNOBEntRWAY SLAY IN TOUCH" SouthEastern Cellular Allen ROANOKE, Texas. Services for Mrs.

Brenda Allen Ayers, 50, of Roanoke, Texas, will be Saturday at noon at the Bluebonnet Hills Memorial Chapel Funeral Home in Colleyville, Texas, with Dr. Leroy Patterson officiating. A second service will be Monday at 10:30 a.m. at the Rainwater-West Funeral Home in Bowdon, Ga. with Rev.

Frank Burson officiating. Burial will be in Bowdon City Cemetery, Mrs. Allen died Wednesday at Harris Methodist Hospital in Bedford, Texas. Survivors include her husband, Ronnie Ayers of Roanoke, Texas; a daughter, Ms. Wendi Jordan of Springtown, Texas; two brothers, Col.

Richard Allen of Springfield, and Ronnie Allen of Heflin; and her parents, Maxie and Glen-dora Allen of Heflin. Mrs. Allen, a Cleburne County native, was a member of Keller First Baptist Church, Road Runners Sunday School Class and Diamond Oaks Country Club. She was an avid golfer. Dowdy HEFLIN Services for Mr.

Joe Don Dowdy, 18, of Anniston, will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at Dryden Funeral Home in Heflin with Dr. Wayne Stevens officiating. Burial will in Heflin City Cemetery. The family will receive friends at "the funeral home tonight from 6-9 and Sunday from 8 a.m.

until the time of service. Mr. Dowdy died Thursday in Gwinnett County, Ga. Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas Dowdy Sr. of Anniston; a sister, Ms. Nina Carol Hood of Fort Worth, Texas; two brothers, Thomas Dowdy Jr. of Fort Worth and William Aubrey Moore of Ackworth, and his grandparents Mr. and Mrs.

Joe Dowdy of Anahuac, Texas. Pallbearers will be Johnny Lam-inack, Phillip Laminack, Keith Vickery, Kevin Vickery, Wendall Eaves and Victor Lopez. Mr. Dowdy was a Texas native and Anniston resident the past four years. He was employed with Stovall Construction Co.

of Braselton, Ga. He was a Baptist. Herndon ROANOKE Services for Mrs. Flossie Mae Nelson Herndon, 46, of Wadley, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Levens Baptist Church with Rev.

Dennis Rollins officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery with Quattlebaum Funeral Home in charge. The family will receive friends after 6 tonight at the funeral, home. Mrs. Herndon died Friday at West Georgia Medical Center.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Cindy Pollard of Roanoke; a son, Tim Pollard of Roanoke; six sisters, Mrs. Agnes Cosper of Franklin Mrs. Ethel Chadwich of Olathe, Mrs. Lorene How-ington of Thomasville Mrs.

Clovis Williamson of LaGrange, Mrs. Mary Hall of Wadley, and Mrs. Nellie Butler of Newnan, four brothers, Freddy Nelson of Lineville, Lee Nelson of Rutledge, James Crawford of Carroll ton, and Wendell Cammons of Olathe; and a granddaughter. Mrs. Herndon was a member of the Zion Baptist Church in Woodland and was a pattern drawer at Amoco Fabrics.

Lashley EASTABOGA Services for Miss Velisha D. Lashley, 18, of 94 Country Lane, Eastaboga will be announced by Miller Funeral Home. Miss Lashley died Thursday in Alexandria. McLeod Services for Mr. James W.

McLeod, 50, of 62 Pelham Heights, Anniston, will be announced by A 1 Wl WESTVALLEY 7 236-4700 2M EAST BATTLBSI mm. JS9 RAINBOW DR. 44J4Mt I Ntw Pdl City Officf Hwy. 231 North Tell Ctty, AL 33-W64 From staff and wire reports BIRMINGHAM James F. Hatcher a leader in Alabama's cultural scene for 40 years and "Mr.

Theater" to many in Birmingham and Anniston, died Friday. He was 71. Hatcher, known simply as "Hatch," became ill at his home Thursday and was taken to University Hospitals, where he died from a massive heart attack at 9 a.m., a spokesman said. "His passing is a great loss," said Walter Seichrist, head of the Metropolitan Arts Council. "He has made great contributions in training young people, many of whom have gone on to hit the big time on Broadway and elsewhere.

His ability was to bring the best out in people and to help them aspire to greater heights." Funeral arrangements were incomplete Friday afternoon. was the founder of Birmingham's Town and "tfewn theater company, which also helped revive live drama in Anniston during the early 1960s. Christine Callahan, who taught theater at Anniston High School, says her students helped Town and Gown crews set the stage for the two productions they brought to town each year. "It was a great experience for the students in my theater production class," said Mrs. Callahan "We just considered them professional actors.

It was a great motivational factor for my students." Mrs. Callahan said the first play Hatcher brought to Anniston was "The Man Who Came to Dinner." Besides working with the students as they carried scenery into the high school auditorium, he was regular guest lecturer in Callahan's class me own and vown ductions, sponsored by the Anniston Rotary Club, continued until the early 1970s when the Anniston Little Theater (now ACTheater) was re-established. Anniston playwright Randy Hall said the Town and Gown productions were the first live theater he and many of his classmates had ever seen. Hatcher directed Hall's "The Widow's Best Friend" for Town and Gown in 1 990, one of his final productions with that company. HATCHER, A NATIVE of Enterprise, served in the Navy and held a bachelor's degree from Birmingham-Southern College and a master's from the University of Alabama.

In 1950, he became the first full-time speech and theater teacher at the University of Alabama Ex- Bosnia From Page 1 said three people were killed and 10 wounded when three shells exploded outside the entrance of the city's main bakery. The Muslim-led Bosnian government says at least 134,000 people are dead or missing in 11 months of fighting that began when Bosnia seceded from Serb-dominated Yugoslavia. The Serbs have seized 70 percent of Bosnia. Their latest target has been eastern Bosnia. About 30 people have been dying daily in Srebrenica, mostly from cold and lack of food, officials say.

Sixteen trucks, each carrying 8 to 10 tons of food and medicine, pulled into Srebrenica Friday. It was the first land convoy to reach uill Yoon C3017EE1 START THIS YEAEiro tension Center, which became the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He accepted the job on the condition he could start a theater that used student' and community talent. That theater became Town and Gown, and it turned into a launching pad for Fannie Flagg, Rebecca Luker and Ray Benson. He also founded Summerfest, a series of three musicals presented each summer in Birmingham; directed 36 Miss Alabama pageants; worked with former Gov.

George C. Wallace to start the Alabama Council on the Arts and Humanities; and worked with the late Gov. Lurleen Wallace to establish the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham. He retired as the producer-director of Town and Gown before the 1991 season. At the time, he said, "The greatest monument I could have would be the continuation of this theater." When he died, he was making plans for the upcoming Summerfest season and directing and producing "Tallu," a musical based on the life of actress Tallulah Bankhead.

The show had toured to Huntsville and Jasper and opened in Hoover on Thursday. Mrs. Callahan said her last conversation with Hatcher came just a Srebrenica, brimming with tens of thousands of refugees, in more than three months. The only aid to reach the town earlier was through airdrops. Gen.

Philippe Morillon, the U.N. commander in Bosnia, rode in at the head of the convoy, said Peter Kessler, a U.N. refugee spokesman. IN ADDITION to food and medicine, the convoy carried plastic sheeting for weatherproofing war-damaged buildings. But the aid was not nearly enough.

In New York, U.N. spokesman Joe Sills said: "We need a convoy every day. This is a good first step but it needs to be repeated over and over couple of weeks ago when he called to tell her about "Tallu" and to invite her to the play. "The life of James Hatcher ran like a golden thread throughout the performing arts in Birmingham during the last 40 years," UAB President Charles McCallum said. "This is a tragic loss to the performing arts in Birmingham and to the UAB family." Hatcher's assistant at Sum merfest, Sharon Updike, said will be remembered as "Mr.

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