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6 ITlif Amtlfltmt Btsr Tuesday, December 26 1967 WAR Local And Area Obituaries (Continued from Page 1) fiiques, but a Marine F9J Cougar observation plane was shot down in South Vietnam and a Marine photo reconnaissance World Returns To War And Worry A fter Christmas William Rhodes William Cecil Rhodes, 55, 1008 today at 3:30 p.m. at Gray; and Patrick H. Sides of Cot-Brown-Service Mortuary. The ton wood, one sister, Mrs. Rev.

G. D. Waits and the Rev. Mary Thrasher of Risco, Roy Carpenter will conduct the seven grandchildren and seven service. Burial will be in great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Ruth Hughes Mrs. Ruth E. Hughes, 38, of Eastaboga, Rt. 2, died Sunday at Anniston Memorial Hospital Phantom plane crashed due to a landing accident as it returned to Da Nane Monday.

W. 53rd Anniston, died Sunday in Birmingham hospital after a long illness. Forestlawn Gardens after a long illness. Funeral services will be held today at 2 p.m. at Antioch Bap Mrs.

Sides was a native of Blount County. She had lived in Calhoun County for the past 50 years. She was a member of Northside Baptist Church. Funeral services will be held today at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Saks.

The Rev. G. D. WaiLs and the Rev. J.

W. tist Church. The Rev. J. Z.

Lipham and the Rev. Harold By PATRICK E. O'KEEFE between Bethlehem andworld. Associated Press Writer 'Jerusalem. It interrupted the Christmas was merry in the The silent, holy hours of broadcast of the Christmas Eve Suez Canal for crews of 14 for- Christmas over, the world went Mass in the Church of the Nativ- e.gn ships trapped there Sis back to work, war and worry but was quickly repaired.

the Arab-Israeli war in day. Britain Tight The seamen from U.S.. man tne initial pilot re- Mrs. Maria Rigins Mr. Gilliland is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Nell Gilliland; two sons, Lamar Gilliland and Gary Gilliland, both of Anniston; his mother, Mrs. Beatrice Baber of Opelika and one sister, Mrs. Woodrow Isbell of Anniston. "Active pallbearers will be J. T.

Cox, Robert Rentschler, Andy Thornas, W. A. Martin, L. W. Bowman and Phillip Booke.

Mr. Gilliland was a member Phillips will conduct the service. Hicks will conduct the service. Burial will be in Edgemont Burial will be in Antioch Cemetery. Cemetery.

Rhodes is survived by his M. Hughes is survived by widow. Mrs. Eunice Rhodes, his her husband, Johnny C. Hughes; American troops in Vietnam.1 Ine bleaK prospect ot domes- nencn.

west uerman. jueaisn. Unusual with a hot turkey dinner under tic belt-tightening in Britain to Bulgarian. Polish and Czeeho-their belts, took "up their weap- make devaluation a success led siovakian ships collaborated on oris for more clashes with the 'Queen Elizabeth II to call on a Christmas tree, set it afloat in I I A iL .1. 1 1 1 A Mattie Rhodes of lW0 sons- wayne ana mother, Mrs.

Mrs. Maria Rigins, 529 Farron died Sunday at her (residence. Funeral ar-i rangements will be announced by Lucius Funeral Home. was a very unusual day," the spokesman said. It was believed that the North Vietnamese had started a massive supplv effort at 6 p.m.

uavid Antnonv Hughes; one Wet Cone and North Viet- ner suoiects io emuiaie me an ancnoreu uoai, e.MiMuKeu and nampsp Ac soon as the 24-honr courage and enterprise dis-hearty Christmas visits daughter, Susan Kay Hughes; her father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Easier of Christina aliipH tnipp ended Christmas slaved bv Sir Francis Chiches- feasted on turkey, of 22nd Street Baptist Church. night.

U.S. warplanes streaked 'tei in his solo sail around the pudding and other delights. Augusta, one brother, Earl Fumlerhnrir He was a native of Chilton Anniston and one brother, A. C. Rhodes of Brunswick, Ga.

Nephews will serve as active pallbearers. Mr. Rhodes was a lifelong resident of Calhoun County. He was a retired employe of the Linen Thread Company and a veteran of World War 11. North Vietnam to attack; over William Grady Easier of North bounty and had lived in An- Hearing Set Today Augusta.

S. two sisters, Mrs. niston most of nis ife. He Earl Funderburg, Lincoln St no i vi i iiiul ui ma inc. iic wcio ai etired emolove of the Anniston i Hobson City, died Sunday at An- WHS a P.

E. Whitfield of Augusta, .1 ii a i Manufacturing Company memorial nospua Funeral arrangements will be was a veteran of World War II. Christmas Eve. when the allied truce began. In the next 24 hours they were able to move supplies unmolested, but the U.S.

recon planes were overhead keeping a clase watch. When the truce ended, the Reds were still on the move and evidently decided to take tht chance that full-scale U.S. raids would not resume until dawn today. The U.S. air response wav almost immediate, however.

Bombers Returned and Mrs. John Carpenter of (Jacksonville, two half sisters, Mrs. Josie Lee Easier and Mrs. Jessie Mae Easier of A iini.nl Mother Charged announced by Lucius Funeral Home. Ted R.

Garni supply convoys which the U.S. Command said the Communists-rushed south during the ceasefire. Amid the war in Vietnam, enduring crisis in the Middle East and tension along the frontier in South Korea. Christmas 1967 occasioned prayers for peace from Pope Paul VI and many others. i Pontiff Speaks Mrs.

Mary HiiiiK nuguoia, uilf glilMULllllu. Oxford, I Active pallbearers will be Ted R. Gann, 55, of In Son's Poisoning Mrs. Mary Frances Hinds, 84, 305 Dogwood Blue Mountain, Rt. 7, died unexpectedly Satur- Lloyd Lawson, Rengie Mitchell, day night at his residence.

Harvey Farmer, died Monday at her residence Funeral services were held to-! Hicks, Calvin Glosson Ernest Taylor Ernest Taylor, Rt. 4, Box 227, died at Anniston Memorial Hospital Monday. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Lucius Funeral Home. CORDELE, Ga. (UPI) An; grandson all died within the U.S.

B52 bombers attractive 35-vear-old woman oast two years, faced a hearing to war slxrtlv also went day in the Gray Brown-Service James Haynes. after the Chapel. The Rev. LaMar Rosser; Mrs. Hughes was a native of After ceieDrating mianigm auci a lung illlicaa.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 3 p.m. a Friendship Methodist Church in conducted the service. Burial; Augusta, Ga. She had lived in Mass in the Sistine Chapel and whose husband, three sons and today on charges that she truce ended. They attacked two more Masses on Christmas was in the Trinity Baptist Eastaboga for the past 12 years Mountain.

The Rev. Lemeieiy. "ua a mnnuci u. nnuum i- was a Mange and the Rev. Mr.

Gann is survived by three Baptist Church morning, the pontiff spoke from the front balcony of St. Peter's Basilica. Looking tired but with an unflagging voice, he told a crowd of 200.000: "Our wish today is united indeed with the renewed wish for Frank Ward will conduct the service. Burial will be in Plum! Springs Cemetery. Mrs.

Hinds is survived by, murdered one ol them by lacing ureas south of Pa Nan" where his coffee with arsenic. the Viet Con? and North Viet- Authorities also reported that namese were susoected of as-the mother of Mrs. Janie Lou ambling, and suspected biv-Gibbs had entered a hospital nunc areas, gun posts and infil-over the weekend. tration routes in the demilita- Mrs. Gibbs was so wesl-liked rized zone northwest of the Ma-that about 25 children were rinu outoost at Con Thien.

were taken each day by The U.S. and South Viet- daughters. Mrs. Rosalie Mrs. Joan Carter and Mrs.

Pat Mjss (ara Parker Goodson all of Oxford; three sisters, Mrs. Joe Leroy of Saint Miss Clara Parker, 88, of 329 Vernon R. WiUon Vernon R. C. Wilson 707 W.

14th died at V.A. Hospital in Birmingham Monday. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Lucius Funeral Home. Friend Says Coiistantine To Return seven sons, Uetton Knight oh Petersburg, Mrs. Bessie; A died at Rosser Nursing Prensvlvani'a and John.

Turlev of Albertville and Home in Roanoke Sunday George, Homer, Noah, Sam and working mothers to her nurse- namese commands reported a Dollie McMillion of Funeral services were held Forney Hinds all of Anniston; three brothers. Gann of Blue ry. But police accused her ot total of 118 shooting incidents poisoning one of her teen-aged durins their 24-hour cease-fire l. j. ana ai Lucius runerai Mome three daughters, Mrs.

Rub Mountain and Chapel, with the Rev. Andrew, Matthews nf Pharlotte peace. now oe our piayei for you and for the world, as even in these days our anxiety, our cares and our hopes have centered on peace." The Pope did not mention Vietnam nor his visit Saturday with President Johnson. President Celebrates By GERALD MILLER sons, and launched an investiga- and blamed all of them on the James Gann of Anniston tion into the swift decimation of enemv. Twentv of the 79 inci- grandchildren.

four Cooper officiating. Burial was in 5rs. Callie Hubbard and Edgemont Cemetesy. Josephine Ginn both of An- City Briefs ATHENS (AP) A close friend of King Constantine, serving as mediator between Pallbearers will be M. A.

Nunnally. Darrell, Leon, Donald and Harold Reaves and J. L. Alverson. Mr.

Gann was a native of the remainder of her family. dents reported by S. nead-Lt. James Perry ol the quarters were termed serious. Georgia Bureau of Investigation meaning they involved casual-said he thought officials would ties.

have no trouble in getting Mrs. A compilation of the casual- celebrated! uiec iimuaiy jun Survivors include two sisters, piston; one brother, Hosie Hij-Mrs. Annie Johnson of New gins of Anniston; one sister. York City and Mrs. Hattie Mrs.

Lillie Brannett Wilson of Shelby. Louisiana, 23 grandchildren and 139 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Elllilv Hall are Joe The President ta, says ne is iuu per cent certain" the 27-year-old monarch will return to his throne, per- Christmas at the White House with his family. The early-rising Johnson clan exchanged gifts around a five-foot Norway LODGE TO MEET Members of A lex a ndrh Gibbs bound over to a grand ties indicated that two Ameri- Clay County.

He had lived in jury. cans were killed and 24 wound- Calhoun County most of his life. Mrs. Gibbs faces a prelimina- ed. three South Vietnamese sol- He was owner and operator of Murray, Diny rtamey, nusseii haps "in the next few days." This report from Haraiambos spruce, witn a goia cross rrom ry hearing today before a diers were killed and six wound- Gann Garage in Oxford.

He Emily Hall, 90, of 105 S. Couch. Lli Owens, Hoyt Masonic Lodge 208 will meet Allen died Friday. Borders. Jess Turley.

tonight at 7 p'm. Work will be in Funeral services will be held Mrs. Hinds was a lifelong res- the third degree. Mt. Olive Baptist Church dent of Calhoun County.

Her Pope Paul going to 6-month-old Potamianos, a retired air vice Patrick Lvndon Nugent, the justice of the peace. She was ed. 16 civilians were wounded was a member of Trinity Bap-being held at the Dooly county and one kidnaped, one South Ko- tist Church, jail at nearby Vienna. rean soldier was wounded, and DONATIONS REQUESTED Wednesday at noon, with the body will lie at the residence un-Rev. O.

J. Leeth til time of service. James erry ot tne ii Communist soldiers were Georgia Bureau of Investigation killed and two taken captive. Total donations received by the Helping Hand Club of Anniston for Donald Greenwood, who is oaralvzed from the neck refused to discuss a motive for; Burial will be in Edgemont Cemetery with Lucius Funeral Mrs. Letha Sides Home in charge.

the death of Roger Gibbs, 19. i mark by Queen Frederika, the king's mother, who told photographers in Rome taking Christmas pictures of the royal family: "We hope to return to Greece soon." The king fled to Rome after his attempt Dec. 13 to over-j throw the military dictatorship! collapsed in hours. A series of! President's grandson. In a Christmas radio and television message, Johnson conceded that to say "Merry Christmas" in wartime is not easy.

"But when you think of the bravery of the human spirit and the power of life to triumph over pain and darkness you are thankful," he said. "Voui who is alleged to have died Alt lSI I 1W Survivors include three Mrs. Letha Dora Sides, 80, of down as a result of a shooting Ho Views Red Victory In Vietnam -v. -v i after consuming heavy doses ot Cresthill. Blue Mountain, nv 18 now tobil $1 474 daughters.

Mrs. Rosie Lee Phil- 3210 rat poison in his coffee. (Continued from Page 1) Monday at 2:30 a.m. at Donations can be mailed to P. ips, Mrs.

Emma Jean Miller died and Mrs. Nellie M. Preslev; Mary Brandon Manor after a Young Gibbs died Oct. 28 at maintained a blackout on the AlKnnn Vinot-vitol Mrtnnti nirtUt 1 nnJ O. Box 927 or gifts can he deposited to the club's account at any bank in the county.

negotiators have been trvins to' uiid n.Sm ai.u Iseveral weeks after the death of police, troops and barriers arrange his return to Athens own spirits are lifted high; and his month-old son, Ronnie blocked off the mass of rubble Mrs. Gibbs" and torn walls. you say it-and mean it-as I do Edward. Oct. 7.

new: Merry Christmas." Ko husband and two two sons, Charlie and Amos long illness. Hall; one brother. Dave Heflin Funeral services were held toot West Point, Ga. day in the Gray Brown-Service Chapel. Burial was in the Garrv GiMilamI Wayside Cemetery.

Mrs. Sides is survived by two Garry H. Gilliland 49, of daughters. Mrs. G.

R. Worthy of 1912 Leighton, died unexpectedly Anniston and Mrs. C. D. Martin other teen- Hundreds of Russians gath- Romney In Vietnam Z'Z aged sons also died within the ered this morning to stare as a By JOSEPH GALLOWAY TOKYO i L'PI i-President Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam in a rare public appearance Christmas Day told his embattled In Vietnam, Michigan Gov.

pnta.nne past two vears. police said. huge crane worked behind a George Romney, who seeks the hiin'J. "pi "All died in hospitals under a board fence thrown up over-GOP nomination to oppose "TIJ care," Perry said. night.

The police and soldiers Johnson in next fall's election, "Vf. Officers said an autopsy on refused to answer questions and the Sunday at 8 p.m. in Opelika. cf Lincoln; two sons. William people they are defeating NOBLE ST.

421 Funeral services will be held Oscar Sides of Blue Mountain hands with American "CAl 1CW the 1P-vpar-nlH Gibbs showed! would not allow Western new- i- tv, iu i and said over and over, several milligrams ot arsenic in men to enter, the body. Police investigating the bomb- Mrs. Gibbs was arrested i ing of Bradsher's automobi'e Prmir Canraa PanaHnnnulnc United States. Hanoi's official newspaper rejected President Johnson's latest peace offer as a "peace swindle." Radio Hanoi said Ho spoke at length to a rally in bomb-scarred Hanoi marking the Christmas, fellows, Merry the the ex Saturday. jHiamitia.

if In the Holy Land, the Israelis rah, th. wmV1, 6 cable over the weekend. were in control of Bethlehem for In Athens, one celebrated! anniversary of the founding of seemed perplexed, and veteran foreign correspondents could not recall an attack like it in Moscow. Bradsher said he did not believe the bombing was directed the first time, and only 9,000 REDS his army and the beginninz of prisoner of the regime was free pngnm nravea tne ram to cei-jbut a second waa jU1I in ,,1,, the fight against the French 23 rJ tontinuea irom rage ij ui vt viii wmmo ai nit uu ui- gftpr tho i tint a i 4 HIV. VI 1 1 iu ml, WAYS FIRST QUALITY years ago.

Ho is 77. "I feel as though I were 20 place of Chnst-about half theVerseu a promise by Papadop-jof celebrations in the streets number anticipated. oulos to free 2 60O politicar pKs lowed each of Red China's against him or his family. He said he assumed someone had picked out a handy foreign car as a target. years younger, he told the Bethlehem's Mayor Eliasj0ners for Christmas.

I previous blasts. But a Radio Pe- rally, then turned to the war. B3naaK, a iKiapb.aidljdreas PapandreoUj son of! king broadcast Monday made rf 'People United' tu. 1 1 Israelis: "Things went smooth-iHronn mif f.vp PYnlnsinn in t.hp'25 minutes after' Iy. and I have no complaints." family, but composer Mikis i LoP Nor testing area of central wife, Monica, and their Wb correct.

Our entire people are united and of one mind, our armed forces have a matchless me Israeli army posted heavy Theodorakis, who wrote the Asia- Instead it reviewed lhe -wns. Keith. and Meal, 2. re-patrols to ward off Arab guerril-' score for the film -Znrha th first six blasts and touted the turned home from a Christmas la attacks, and the only sabo-: Greek." was still in Averolf thought of Mao Tse-tung. tage was a cut in the telephone Prison in Athens The AEC declined to comment dinner.

They live in a building for non-Communist foreigners. Finding the apartment building's small parking lot fuM, Bradsher parked the car in an alley just around the corner from the sentry box of a policeman assigned to the building. The explosion tore off the on the Chinese silence and said it would stand by its original statement, which reported the location of the blast and said the equalled roughly i 20,000 tons of TNT. That would heroism, and we are enjoying the firm support of friends in the five continents. "This is why we will surely win and the U.S.

aggressors willij? surely be defeated," he said. "It is clear that the U.S. is being defeated." Nhan Dan, the official news-1 paper of North Vietnam, said in a commentary that Johnson's Over Half Of Nation Has White Christmas be similar-to the first atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima in right front fender sending it extensively 1945. -living 15 feet, and Christmas. JaDanese air force nlanes de- damaeed the under side of the By United Press International Children in more than half the nation got a chance to use their sleds Christmas Day, and more latest peace offer made in an interview broadcast nationally in the United States was aimed at "dragging on the U.S.

IS Christmas Eve and Christmas jtected unusual radioactive fall-1 car. Day snow joined with pre- out over Japan Tuesday, but The blast was of such force Christmas falls to provide more government said it was not that it smashed the windows of as than half the nation with a great enough to endanger hu- apartments for at least four got the opportunity today snow accompanied a blast 'aggressive war in Vietnam." Demand Noted- "Johnson did 'not utter a "Jiwnite uinstmas. most of it mans. floors ahnvp th nar Arctic air into the United falling Monday. single word on what the world the? people are demanding, States.

While much of the nation fought snow and cold, residents in low-lying areas of the state of Washington shored their homes or left for high ground as flood Rain was the holiday offering! in the Pacific Northwest, I prolonging a- long siege of precipitation that has raised' rivers above the flood stage. Unseasonably high temperatures melted snows in the upper elevations to add to the water! level. Election Law Needs Overhau ling-Ihe i newspaper said. It said those demands were: To stop definitively and unconditionally the bombing and other acts of war against North Vietnam; To withdraw U.S. and allied troops from South Vietnam; I To recognize the National.

waters crept upward. Snow rode the latest blast of cold air into the United States il- A I It I WASHINGTON UPI )-For- Michigan, who issued a detailed, mer President Dwight D. unprecedented financial ac- 12 TV1" Christmas meant work for from the Rockies to the hundreds who piled sandbags on Appalachians getting more to- the' edges of the Snohomish Eisenhower, speaking out on thelcounting shortly after announc-! Liberation ront political armg eve of a presidential election ins his candidacv for the the Viet Cong as the "only i River npar Rvprett Wach tn As the snow fell, so did the the protect low-lying homes fromiyear, says it is time federal presidential nomination. genuine representative of Large Group Women's Better Dresses temperatures. It was below zero floodwaters election law was thoroughly, Eisenhower also suggested a Soutn Vietnamese people, overhauled.

Congress might revision of "antiquated" and- 7 Rain also fell along the East from Virginia to Maine, Author Succumbs star Dy requiring politicans to. -virtually meaningless" cam-disclose in full their finances, he paign election laws to shut SEDUCE Dut the advancing cold air promised to turn it to snow. hdia- "loopholes and require full! MILWAUKEE. Wis. (AP) If a man has nothing of political ex-: Prof.

Frederick J. Hoffman, 58, .001 from the Dakotas to the upper Midwest and into the 30s as far south as Texas and the Gulf states. International Falls, recorded the nation's low, 11 below, at 2 a.m. EST. The snow and cold glazed the roads in western New York, giving rise to hazardous driving warnings.

Similar warnings were issued in Ohio and conceal, why should he object?" penses." author of 21 books and some 250 Eisenhower argued in an article; But ne opp0Sed the Johnson I published essays, collapsed and written for the January Read administration's nronosal for! died Sunday night. His writing Muscle Shoalt Huntsvlllt Gadsden ANNISTON Birmingham Tuscaloosa ontgomery Selma Ozark Oolhan Mobil m9 Si 53 37 54 5 5 S3 SS 55 57 41 m-'o a C1 consressional appropriations to iPlcs mciuueu ninei ic-au uici- Mandatory financial disclo-i help oav for presidential! a'we and the literary and cul- THRU tural history of the 1920s. He A i A ri A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A 5 A A A A si i A A A A A Pennsylvania the night of oo sure should be part of thet camnaiens. or anv other nlan to was on the University of Wis-jg price of public office," he "tan the public till." Instead he wrote, and Congress should proposed income tax deductions) consm-Milwaukee staft. consin-Milwaukee staff, Local Weather mane sure me wnoie process oti for "modest political gifts up plflntinn finonninrt io nikmnt i I A.nrt ii i miliar.

affoftinrT flic IWVn iuuni.i!ig io ouujcv.1 iui io pernaps $du or iou. mancw mo FORECAST: Today and CHOOSE FROM JUNIORS MISSES HALF SIZES pitless publicity." Urges Close Loopholes I private business or any business As citizens with the priceless1 "in oj-deF-to-prevenUthe. farji" which he has large holdings, right of franchise, we must too. lavish ebons hv the affluent then it is equally wrong for a tonight, fais to partly cloudy. Colder today with Jfreezing tf DIAMONDS Choose From Dresses Down From Our 1 nr.

let 4U i. 1 7 -r: i.i.-. temperatures tonight. Wed-. Regular Stock! Choose from One-Piece Such As Acrylics, Rawns.

Cottons; congressman io vote, or in any r. c. M-O-R-E! Fabrics Very Larre Stock. UfWii me lugiiesi coae or widely practiced in both parties, honor public life," he added. all loopholes must be closed, size shape description.

5 M-O-R-E! Save Big Today! Remember There Is No Charge For Loy-A-Way At way mtiuence votes on simuar measures." nesday, increasing cloudiness and cool. Winds northerly 5 to 15 m.p.h. today diminishing $5 to $7500 aume upposiuon and all gifts then be limited to, The former President's nosi- sav i rpnf nf the HmmrV Penney's! tomgnt. High today 46: low tonight 27; high Wednesday 47. Open A Penney Charge Account Today! tion on financial disclosure put: adjusted net income," he said, him at odds with some Eisenhower1- also suggested members of his own party, congressmen adopt the same including Senate GOP leader conflict of interest standards 9 Ht LOCAL STATISTICS Highest temperature this date, 74 In Lowest Temperature this date.

12 in IMS. For 14 hours ending at 4-in mm cyerett uirKsen, and i that are applied to federal some Democrats as well. office holders Olamaad Specialists Of Unaueitwwd AutharHy todey: Highest temperature, 54 degrees; lowest temperature, 35 degrees. Rainfall .01 inches. Total rainfall this vr nu1 i CHARGE ITI AT PBINEY'S! I am it tinea up with the view "if it is wrong for such an 1 Ml Noble St.

looey, io.m.; snrne A tomorrow, 4:4 a.m. Barometer rising, 'of Govf George Romney pf official to make decisions on I.

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